Comment 10 for bug 1709729

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Matthew Marcus (mamarcus) wrote : Re: [Bug 1709729] Re: On W7 machine dies immediately with internal error before displaying anything at all. True in 32+64-bit

Dear Eduard. Regarding yours of Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:50:46 -0000:

I do indeed have other fonts.conf files, belonging to Geany and GIMP. How can I arrange it so that Inkscape ignores these, if that's indeed the problem?

Sincerely,
    Matthew Marcus
> Seems to be the same issue reported as bug #1662293 (no solution so
> far).
>
> The relevant error is likely:
> "Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file"
>
> Could you please check, that
> a) the file \inkscape\etc\fonts\fonts.conf exists
> b) you do not have any other files named "fonts.conf"
> located elsewhere on your system?
>
> I think I encountered this before but I wasn't able to find the report
> yet...
>