Gimp 2.6 & Pango 1.8 : no font rendering

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 06:46, Luc Dore wrote:

> I need a little bit of assistance.  I decided to install gimp 2.6.6  
> yesterday and have no font rendering at all.  all of the gui fonts  
> are boxes.

I installed gimp2 to see if I could reproduce your issue. I used Mac  
OS X 10.5.6 Intel with Xcode 3.1.2 and MacPorts 1.7.1.

> Pango reports the following when starting gimp:
>
> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not  
> provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus- 
> session.plist is loaded!
> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not  
> provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus- 
> session.plist is loaded!

I get these messages too. Then again, I also have not started dbus,  
because I did not feel like starting a system service of unknown  
purpose just to run an application. But, you may want to activate dbus.

> Not enough memory

Not sure if this is a harmless consequence of the above or what, but  
I got it too.


> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 0x6EAD
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD

I've been getting these errors forever, with other pango-using  
software. I don't know what to do about it. The latest bug on this is  
filed here:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19171


> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.  
> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Lucida Grande Medium 12',  
> text='Looking for data files'
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.  
> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Lucida Grande Medium  
> 9.9990234375', text='Parasites'
>>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 0x6EAD
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.  
> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Lucida Grande Semi-Bold  
> 9.9990234375', text='Layers'
>
> (gimp:259): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.  
> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Lucida Grande Medium Oblique  
> 9.9990234375', text='Circle (11) (13 × 13)'
>
> This is what I have installed:
>
> sudo port installed cairo pango gtk2 gimp2
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  cairo @1.0.4_0
>  cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx
>  cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx+no_x11
>  cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx+no_x11+quartz (active)
>  cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx+quartz
>  gimp2 @2.6.6_0+darwin_9+no_x11+quartz (active)
>  gtk2 @2.8.17_0+darwin_8
>  gtk2 @2.14.7_2+no_x11+quartz (active)
>  pango @1.12.2_0
>  pango @1.24.0_0+macosx
>  pango @1.24.0_0+macosx+no_x11 (active)
>
>
> I saw on the issue tracker this very same issue, about a year ago,  
> that was resolved with pango 1.6; now I'm a 1.8.6

I initially had trouble installing all of gimp2's dependencies in my  
usual MacPorts installation using +no_x11 and +quartz, because I do  
not usually use those variants, so my ports had all been installed  
with X11 support and without Quartz support, and some ports  
apparently do not adequately verify that their dependencies have been  
installed with the required variant before proceeding.

I ended up installing a completely new MacPorts installation in a  
different prefix to test your issue. It took awhile, but gimp2  
eventually built successfully with the +no_x11 and +quartz variants,  
and text looks fine. Note that in this instance, I only got the dbus- 
session error and the not enough memory error.

I think you are having a similar difficulty to what I experienced  
initially, because I see that you have other variants of cairo  
installed that do not have Quartz and do have X11 support. If any of  
the other ports that you have installed that you did not show above  
but which are dependencies of gimp2  were built while cairo with X11  
and/or without Quartz support was active, that selection may have  
been built into those dependencies.

In particular, you have pango @1.24.0_0+macosx+no_x11 installed,  
whereas for compatibility with cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx+no_x11+quartz ,  
you must install pango @1.24.0_0+macosx+no_x11+quartz. It should not  
have been possible to install pango @1.24.0_0+macosx+no_x11 while  
cairo @1.8.6_4+macosx+no_x11+quartz was active; it should have  
printed an error message explaining that the +quartz variants must  
match between the pango and cairo ports.

If installing the correct pango variants doesn't fix it, you may have  
to get as drastic as uninstalling all ports that are dependencies of  
gimp2 (even indirect dependencies) and then install again, making  
sure to use +no_x11 and +quartz on each of them. You could use port- 
rdeps to identify that list of ports. It will be a lot of ports (I  
count 169).

http://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/port-rdeps/port-rdeps

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