Re: [Inkscape-devel] Font fall back support for inkscape

On Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7:56:43 PM, Tavmjong wrote:

TB> The scope of Abhishek's work will be limited to parsing a font list TB> correctly and getting Inkscape to use the first available font in the TB> list.

I just wanted to point out that this is not the correct behaviour (and in fact there is a test in the SVG 1.1 test suite which specifically tests for this behaviour, and produces a fail if the implementation always picks the first available font in the list).

Instead, the list should be parsed and each character in the text should be displayed using the first font in the list which is a) available b) has a glyph for that character