In Snow Leopard Inkscape installs just fine, either .46 and .47. However, once I run it CPU goes up to 99% and it takes forever to start. Once on the screen it is as responsive as you'd expect an app with 99% CPU. There are no error messages or warnings in the terminal so I can't really tell whats going wrong.
I'm using macports 1.8 on 10.6.1 on an MBP 3.1. Everything up to date.

Do you have lots of fonts installed? It was reported it affects the load time.

Ask on the macports-users mailing list. The maintainer of the inkscape portfiles has been very supportive with any inkscape issues... and he also maintains the gnome/gtk ports (in case it's more related to one of the dependencies installed by inkscape).

Did you rebuild MacPorts from scratch as recommended?
Do you have other ports installed on SL like GIMP? Do they launch without issues?

No, not many fonts installed. Just the usual stuff.
Yes, built everything from scratch.
I now use the dmg package from Sourceforge. Does the job for now.

A_User wrote:However, once I run it CPU goes up to 99% and it takes forever to start.

see gtk2/pango apps taking *forever* to startup:

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:Is anyone else seeing performance issues with gtk2 based
applications? I'm on SnowLeopard with mostly updated versions of
ports (where they actually build). […]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:oh, and I forgot to mention that it is certainly a pango issue since
reverting pango to the last version "fixes" the problem:

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sudo port deactivate pango # 1.26.0_0+macosx+universal
sudo port activate pango @1.24.5_0+macosx+universal

source: macports-dev mailing list

hi...im from south america...i dont know if im posting fine this question here...i have a macbookpro with snow leopard and i cant execute inkscape...i nstalled the universal for mac and it doesnt work, i cant open it... looks like it will but doesnt start, just nothing... like doesnt exist...what should i do?...is there any solution or update? thanks. Love inkscape and dont want to come back to windows again...mac is the gratest for graphics....thanks so much!

claup2004 wrote:i have a macbookpro with snow leopard and i cant execute inkscape...i nstalled the universal for mac and it doesnt work

Yes - this is a known issue: Inkscape 0.46 doesn't run on Snow Leopard due to incompatible library versions. You have to wait for the soon-to-be-released Inkscape 0.47 version or you can download the most recent prerelease build from sourceforge.net. See also the topic "Mac Snow Leopard?" in this forum.

Note: most of the extensions (aka Effects in Inkscape 0.46) do not work yet on Snow Leopard. This will hopefully be fixed in the final release.