Hi Michael,

Thanks for the tip. Making the directory worked. Thanks!

-James

On 11-Jun-08, at 1:41 PM, inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:55 +1000 From: Michael Wybrow <michael.wybrow@...131...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Startup problem in OS X To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20737E93-E9C0-475A-9D62-AF5099B720A3@...131...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

On 09/06/2008, at 11:01 PM, James Smith wrote:

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I've upgraded my computer and reinstalled Inkscape but it doesn't seem to run. I haven't installed the OS X developer kit, but X11 was installed when I setup Matlab. I have installed the latest version of XQuartz (v2.1.4).

FWIW, the latest is actually 2.2.1.

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When I click on the Inkscape icon I get the "While Inkscape is open, its windows can be displayed... The first time this version of Inkscape is run it may take several minutes before the main window is displayed while font caches are built." After I click "OK" nothing happens. I've waited, rebooted and started again and there has been no display of the main window.

If you are on Leopard and you see this font message each time you start Inkscape, then do the following:

1. Open Terminal.app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the

following

2. mkdir ~/.fontconfig

3. Close Terminal, and restart Inkscape. It should work.

If you don't see the font caches message anymore, but the Inkscape window never appears, can you please run Console.app, start Inkscape and then reply here with the relevant error messages output by Inkscape to the Console app.

Cheers, Michael