gimp 2.10.32 quartz does not display characters on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I upgraded all macports on 10.7, it completed fine apparently.

gimp 2.10.32 starts, seems even to work, but no labels, no text is displayed in the whole UI. The issue is related to pango and happens on 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I notice that also meld does not display anything, so I suppose gtk is the culprit.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Replying to rmottola:

I notice that also meld does not display anything, so I suppose gtk is the culprit.

I just stumbled on this a few weeks ago too, but hadn't gotten around to filing a ticket. Thank you!

And I agree, there's a good possibility that it's related to gtk. I'll add it to my list!

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Lukas, this is the ticket which Riccardo was referring to, per the current discussion via macports-users:

​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2022-October/051478.html

It's on my to-do list to investigate, but thoughts/suggestions always welcome!

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

Example screenshot

[lukaso (Lukas Oberhuber)]

This report might point in the right direction ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8700, though it's about old fonts that no longer work. The situation here might be that 10.7 uses fonts that are no longer supported by the libraries that GIMP is being compiled with.

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I'm unsurem @lukaso : I don't really get displayed anything, not squares. Also, i suppose that maybe in that case, it was a quite new macOS system, in my case, I did not change fonts. So perhaps the default changed? strange.

[rmottola (Riccardo)]

I tracked this down to pango. Still trying to bisect the version.