Howdy Folks,
I've got the latest pre release running on my computer. I've moved the configuration files (~/.inkscape and ~/.inkscape-etc) to prevent any odd config settings from causing any problems. When I started it, Inkscape said it might take a while for it to cache the fonts and what not. So I let it go and eventually a window popped open --- it took about an hour. Then I tried to use it and the interface was unresponsive. For example I resized the window, and it took about four minutes for the widgets and tools to be redrawn. I don't have any problem with the previous prereleases or version 0.46.
Has anyone else had any similar problems? Is there anything I can do to figure out what's going on here?
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30) Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0 X11.app Version: 2.1.6
On 1/10/09 19:01, John Harrold wrote:
Howdy Folks,
I've got the latest pre release running on my computer. I've moved the configuration files (~/.inkscape and ~/.inkscape-etc) to prevent any odd config settings from causing any problems. When I started it, Inkscape said it might take a while for it to cache the fonts and what not. So I let it go and eventually a window popped open --- it took about an hour. Then I tried to use it and the interface was unresponsive. For example I resized the window, and it took about four minutes for the widgets and tools to be redrawn. I don't have any problem with the previous prereleases or version 0.46.
Has anyone else had any similar problems? Is there anything I can do to figure out what's going on here?
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30) Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0 X11.app Version: 2.1.6
Did you download the prerelease 0.47pre3-2 LEOPARD+ from sourceforge.net or did you build it yourself? It sounds as if you have a build that uses a broken pango library version from MacPorts http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21679
regarding dot files: Inkscape 0.46+devel and Inkscape 0.47(pre) store the user configuration files in ~/.config/inkscape, so no interference with Inkscape 0.46 here.
0.46 and 0.47pre still share ~/.inkscape-etc and ~/.fontconfig though.
~suv
Sometime in October, ~suv proposed the following:
| regarding dot files: | Inkscape 0.46+devel and Inkscape 0.47(pre) store the user configuration | files in ~/.config/inkscape, so no interference with Inkscape 0.46 here.
Ahh this answers my other question. Thanks.
On 01/10/2009, at 10:01 AM, John Harrold wrote:
I've got the latest pre release running on my computer. I've moved the configuration files (~/.inkscape and ~/.inkscape-etc) to prevent any odd config settings from causing any problems. When I started it, Inkscape said it might take a while for it to cache the fonts and what not. So I let it go and eventually a window popped open --- it took about an hour. Then I tried to use it and the interface was unresponsive. For example I resized the window, and it took about four minutes for the widgets and tools to be redrawn. I don't have any problem with the previous prereleases or version 0.46.
Hi John,
My apologies about this. This was caused by a regression in a new version of Pango, a library we use for determinining font metrics, among other things. This had a bug that caused a *massive* slowdown on Mac. You managed to download the pre3-1 package in the 45 minute window it was up on SourceForge before I noticed the problem, and corrected it with pre3-2. I'm glad you found the updated version, and sorry about wasting your time with the non-functional build.
Cheers, Michael
Sometime in October, Michael Wybrow proposed the following:
Hi John,
My apologies about this. This was caused by a regression in a new version of Pango, a library we use for determinining font metrics, among other things. This had a bug that caused a *massive* slowdown on Mac. You managed to download the pre3-1 package in the 45 minute window it was up on SourceForge before I noticed the problem, and corrected it with pre3-2. I'm glad you found the updated version, and sorry about wasting your time with the non-functional build.
Hey Michael,
No worries, these things happen and there's no need to apologize. I'm fortunate that there is someone like you out there packaging these things for me. It enables me to have four different versions installed simultaneously with no effort on my part.
I'm a happy camper.
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