[BATIK-923] Text rendering broken in MacOS X 10.5

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: GVT Text
• Environment: Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4; Platform: PC
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Helder Magalhães
• Created: 29/Sep/09 15:49
• Updated: 04/Mar/14 06:31

Description

There have been several (somehow recent) reports in the mailing list [1] [2] [3] regarding a MacOS-specific issue with text rendering, namely what seems to be a regression in version 10.5. Reports also aim towards a workaround consisting in disabling Quartz, so I'm documenting this in order to try gathering more information on this issue and/or to server as a placeholder for patches.

This may also help fixing/working around the issue reported in issue 41451.

Note that I've set the OS as Mac OS X 10.4, although this seems to be specific to version 10.5 (which is not available in the list). Confirmations on which specific MacOSX version do the symptoms reproduce are welcome!

[1] http://www.nabble.com/Text-Not-Displaying-ts24550763.html
[2] http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-text-on-OSX-ts24841934.html
[3] http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-JSVGCanvas-SVG-display-only-partial-document-on-MAC-OS-10.5-ts25493305.html

Issue Links

• depends upon: BATIK-962 [META] Batik 1.8 release tracking bug
• is duplicated by: BATIK-926 Inconsistency displaying <text> in SVG viewer