I'll give it another try based on your recommendation - I generally prefer to support Open Source software, but without some nod to at least looking and behaving a little native, software I love using on Linux alas often doesn't cut it on the Mac. Thanks for the tips - I used to run Inkscape under X11 a few years ago, but it was an enormous memory hog and just too cumbersome.It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape for Mac is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.With PC and Mac compatibility, it can be highly useful for freelancers and small business owners alike. It supports Scalable Vector Graphics formats and all major graphics file types. Next up on my Mac OS X to-investigate list: making printer defaults stick in X11 apps.Inkscape offers an alternative to expensive vector graphics publishing programs in an open-source, free application. My suspicion is that the X11 subsystem only pulls the System fonts, and not the superset of the System and User fonts, which is the reason why moving fonts from the User resources to the System resources caused them to show up in Inkscape. Like any good OS this helps limit the damage that any given user can inflict to the system.Įxtrapolating from my geek knowledge, it appears the core of the issue is how X11 interacts with user resources - or rather how it doesn’t interact with them. If you want a resource made available to all users on the system you place them in the System resources instead of the User resources and in order to install a System resource a privilege escalation is required. The end-user helpfully sees a superset of both the System and User resources exposed to them in the interface.
Logging in as another user would not expose those resources.
The concept being that a specific user can install a resource under their login ID (/Library/Fonts) and that resource is only available for that user’s login ID. Macs present both a system-specific (under /Library) and user-specific (under /Library) view of several system resources, such as Fonts.
I admit to not have tried the Gimp in this state although I assume this is a fonts-in-X11-apps issue and not specifically Inkscape and thus the Gimp would have had the same problems.Ī bit of googling resulted in this forum post that solved the problem nicely. The fonts showed up in the usual slew of non-X11 applications but refused to show up in Inkscape. One of the odd challenges I encountered with getting Inkscape working on Sebastian were the fonts.
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