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I=92ve lately been seeing some trouble on OSX also (with 1.8.2). I think =
the problems may be related to a newer gtk that tries to render directly =
through Quartz rather than using X11. I haven=92t had time to track this =
down.

On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> James,
>=20
> I have seen your previous message on the geda-user list though I'm
> not sure if I can help. There were too many changes since version
> 1.8.2 (which I suppose worked well for you) which would affect the
> code behaviour. One question though: have you built 1.8.2 before
> or used your distribution package version?
>=20
> Other thoughts which may be of some help are below.
>=20
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:15:19AM -0500, James Battat =
(jbattat AT wellesley DOT edu) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Vladimir,
>>=20
>> Again, thank you for the quick and helpful reply.
>>=20
>> OK, I disabled xorn and was able to compile and run gschem (and gaf), =
but there are several serious issues when running.  A few are:
>> * when you close gcschem =93F C=94, an OS X popup appears saying that =
gschem quit unexpectedly.  The terminal window shows a suite of error =
messages, including a segfault message (full output below).
>=20
> I've looked at your previous report and see those errors are from
> your underlying OS rendering system, that is the bug may be either
> in geda-gaf or in some of your libraries/dependences. Or it may be
> some race condition. Did you do 'sudo ldconfig' after
> installation? If not, there could be some linking issues.
>=20
>> * The =93overbar=94 notation (e.g. "\_Q\_=94) produces a very thick =
over-bar in gschem, and the PDF output produced by gaf shows the entire =
character as a solid black rectangle (i.e. don=92t see a letter, don=92t =
see an overbar, just a large black rectangle).
>=20
> Don't know here. What does it look like? Though I see some
> rendering inconsistences for such a string even on Linux if,
> e.g. I move the text down a thin line above remains.
>=20
>> * toolbar icons don=92t appear until you mouse-over them, and =
drop-down menu text (=93File=94 =93Edit=94 =93View=94 etc.) is invisible =
until you click on them.
>=20
> Could you try to disable mit-shm extension as described at [1]?
>=20
>> * Blank line in text field produces huge vertical whitespace gap.  I =
add a text field to a schematic, enter two lines of text separated by a =
blank line, then when rendered, the first and second lines of text are =
separated by the equivalent of about 20 lines of blank space.
>>=20
>> In particular, the output PDF is problematic because the pin labels =
that have the overbar notation are unreadable.
>>=20
>> I don=92t know if these issues are gschem related, or rather an issue =
with some dependency on my end?
>>=20
>> Note: I also see these issues in gschem version 1.9.2, as described =
in a related post to geda-user:
>>   =
http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=3Dgeda-user/2016/02/29/22:00:=
39
>=20
> All the issues you've mentioned are related to rendering and you
> are the first who is reporting such a weird behaviour. We're
> trying to support as many OS's as we could, and nobody had
> reported something like this yet. I ran gschem 1.9.2 on M$windows
> and it worked OK. I cannot help with the errors reported there
> since AFAIUI they are coming from some underlying library. Quick
> searching showed the similar issues/messages appear on iphones (in
> other circumstances, of course) which use probably the same
> rendering libraries as your MacOS. I have no Mac around ;) so
> probably people having one could help more.
>=20
>  Vladimir
>=20
> [1] =
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.html#sect6
>=20
>=20
>=20

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com



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