jiho wrote:

The first time Inkscape starts it takes quite a while to build the font cache. Maybe you just have to be patient. Otherwise there's a PPC build available in the development versions: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16774-PPC.dmg Tell us if one of the two solutions work. If the development version works, it means that the next version (due soon) will.

I'm sorry but that's not a PPC build; it's a MAC OS X PPC build. There are some small but very real differences between BSD and Linux.

oscar.moreno wrote:

I have installed Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL into Mac OS 10.5.2 with Xquartz 2.1.3. I can NOT get the menu bar or the window. I only get the part of the menu bar that reads "inkscape." Has anyone seen this behavior? Can someone give me direction on how to troubleshoot my installation? PowerMac G5 with 1.5 Gb of memory.

I had a very similar problem when installing on my brother's G5 with OSX 10.5 and two video cards and 8Gb. The problem was that he had two screens, one set as screen 1 (DVI connection) and screen 3 (VGA connection) and the other screen set as screen 2 (DVI connection). I could see the Inkscape menu bar entry, but nothing else.

What I eventually discovered by accident was that Inkscape had been automatically sent to screen 3 (who knows why?). I found that simply because I was mucking around with settings on his monitor and switched from DVI to VGA on screen 1, which showed me screen 3. Once we'd found the window, we dragged it across to screen 1 and it stayed there for subsequent restarts. I then told my brother to disable the third screen in his setup, since it was only as a backup and never used.

If you can see the Inkscape menu bar entry, that means it is running, but probably minimised or hidden in some other way. Because Inkscape still uses X11, the main menus appear within the actual Inkscape window, while the menu bar entry doesn't have much at all (X11 stuff I think?). You might want to check your configuration to see if it's similar to my brother's.