Hi -

This is the second time I've used inkscape and last time the text entry worked fine. Now when I type text, weird characters show up. If I type the character f the screen zooms out, then starts entering character '2'. If I enter g, the screen zooms in. Does anybody know how I get out of this mode? I don't see anything in the text section of the manual that touches on this.

I'm running on Mac OS X Leopard.

Thank you for any help.

Steve

This may be an X11 problem on my mac. If I open gimp and try to enter text into a drawing, I see similar wrong characters. Wonder how I fix that? I'll look into it . . .

I checked on my Mac at home, which is running the same version of Leopard (10.5.7), gimp (2.4.7), and X11 (XQuartz 2.1.6), and it shows the same wrong characters when I enter text into a drawing. This feels like an X11 problem. What a bummer as I have a presentation to make and need a drawing.

Problem Solved!

I upgraded my version of XQuartz from 2.1.6 to 2.3.3.2 and it solved the problem -- hooray!

Thank you so much for this, you've saved me a whole lot of headaches!

I'm very grateful, your work has saved me a lot of time and aggravation.

Here, have a big fat juicy smile from me.