The default x11 installation of gimp works perfectly. I know that is not the version you want, you want the +quartz version.
But there’s a data point, at least, and a likely clue as to where to look for the issue with font rendering. Ken > On Jan 8, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I see the same thing on a fresh gimp2 install +quartz on 10.7 (one very tiny > patch needed to gimp2 to change NULL -> 0 to keep clang-15 happy, otherwise a > no-touch build). > > However, there is no text drawn on any gimp2 windows or dialog boxes, as you > noted. > > Installing pan2 +quartz +gtk3, I see the same thing, no text anywhere, and > many messages about “drawing failure for widget XYZ: out of memory”. > > So there is clearly something to fix. Perhaps every quartz gtk3 application > is broken on 10.7 (and some other systems? — not sure yet). > > Reinstalling pan2 to build as +quartz against the default +gtk2 also shows no > text anywhere (but no out of memory errors are revealed in the terminal > window, which is probably just inferior default debugging). > > I haven’t tested (as yet) the non-quartz versions of these ports. > > I would write up the simplest possible gtk3 application that displays text, a > real “hello world” thing, and then start debugging from there. > > Best, > > Ken >
