inkscape crashes

[Philip Neukom]

Jonathan, perhaps this can give you some ideas of what to try in the
interim until the port is fixed:

http://pav.iki.fi/software/textext/macports-inkscape-textext-howto.html

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=962

http://pav.iki.fi/software/textext/

Good luck
Philip

On 11.11.2010 10:00, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> On 11/10/10 08:00 , macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
>> > From: Philip Neukom
>> > To:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>> > Subject: Re: inkscape crashes
>> >
>> > Sorry to hear that you are having problems with the Macports version of
>> > Inkscape.
>> >
>> > If you have to get some work done, then perhaps you could use the
>> > pre-compiled version fromwww.inkscape.org.(??)
>> >
>> > As long as you also install the most recent X11 from XQuartz
>> > xquartz.macosforge.org you should be good to go.
>> >
>> > I've been using this version and it hasn't crashed so far.
>> >
>> > Regards,
> Yes, I did find the downloadable mac "app" version works OK.  However, 
> the "textext" extension (and probably other extensions) do not work with 
> this version since it doesn't know about macports installed libraries 
> (libxml2 for the case of textext).  It will be nice to have inkscape 
> working via Macports again after the various bugs are fixed.
> 
> Jonathan