Printing issues on Mac [was [PATCH] Change default MacOS font]

[Dirk Hohndel]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:
>> Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:
>> > Since I got hold of that 10.6.8 Mac, I thought I should try printing
>> there
>> > as well.  And it worked fine!  See the attached PDF for result.
>> >
>> > So this is a 10.8.x issue, I guess.  Come to think of it, my media center
>> > runs 10.7.x, so I'll check there as well.
>>
>> The plot thickens. Very interesting indeed. Can you dig around in the
>> developer documentation if there was an interface that changed?
>>
>> But more likely this then needs to be filed as a Pango bug...
>>
>> (this might explain why I haven't been able to reproduce this - while I
>> have a 10.8 system I never print from it...)
>
> Hah!  After reading
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2012-December/thread.html#00000,
> I started looking at pango versions.  The stable version of pango in
> MacPorts is v1.30.1, which is kinda old.  So I uninstalled that in favour
> of pango-devel, which is 1.32.5.
>
> Voila!  The printout is fine!

Excellent. Thanks for tracking that down.

Can you send a patch for the README that includes that important
information. I need to make sure to remember to have a newer version of
Pango when building the official binaries!

/D