Side note: I tried uninstalling the installer Inkscape, and installing the one through Windows 10 App Store instead. Same problem, that didn't fix it.

It appears that Microsoft .NET framework is broken in my Windows 10 installation. Unfortunately the installer and repair utilities avaialble on the .NET site are unable to repair un/reinstall it, they fail with a "serious error" (no details). It may be I'll have to do a full clean install ...

Thank you for the tips! You right it looks like a general font issue with gtk (pango dll?) (and not only inkscape). It looks a bit like this one https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/60 This one looks promising. It seems that the MS .NET framework is broken in my Windows 10. I tried to run t...

Could this bug be the same thing as reported here? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1810667 "Trying to select fonts crashes the application" - I can select fonts from the list. However clicking with the text tool on the page causes an instant crash (no error message, the program j...

The issue appears to have something to do with GTK+ being broken or getting configured wrong, but I've been unable to solve it by un/reinstalling GIMP and the GTK+ runtime.

I tried installing a couple of other open source graphics programs (Synfig Studio, The GIMP) and it turns out they have exactly the same problem. Synfig's UI text is broken, and GIMP crashes after launch, stuck looking for fonts. So it turns out this issue is not specific to Inkscape. I apologize fo...

Side note, I cannot save the Inkscape/etc/fonts/fonts.conf file - it's being held by another program - even if Inkscape is not running. Could it be held up by Windows Security, and has it perhaps prevented the font configuration from updating properly? Just guessing here but let's see....

Looks like Inkskape crash / exits instantly when I select the text tool and click it on the page.

brynn wrote:Have you tried reverting to 0.92.3, just as a troubleshooting step?

Yes I did. This did not help. I also tried installing 0.91 but it got an error on launch and couldn't start.

All the text in the menus, rulers, etc are displaying as squares when I installed the latest Inkscape (0.92.4) to my Windows 10 x64 system. Language translations are all installed, so it doesn't look like a "missing language pack" issue. I tried changing the language but it had no effect. ...