jiho wrote:

On 2008-February-05 , at 19:12 , churro wrote:

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• select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the font

attributes are (name, weight etc.)

these are the attributes: I'm using Culrz MT font-size:98.06591034px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#ff8080;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family:Curlz

MT

This is a (Microsoft I think) Font Suitcase format, which indeed causes issues. The strange thing is that it worked in an earlier version of Inkscape. I am guessing that the difference actually comes from the font itself. When did you start this piece of work? Did you upgrade your system or MS Office in between?

I've never even heard of these suitcase things (I assume you figured out the format from the file itself and not the above properties). Hopefully this means that the code I did has not adversely affected the situation. I wrote it so that it looks for my new information first, then falls back onto the old tried tested and true way.

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• check wether you see the font in the text and font palette (even

if it's

not used in the document)?

The font does not show up in the font palette

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If you get a ttf font in a regular format (ttf extension) Inkscape should be able to see it. Inkscape has issues with fonts in the dfont format and with Microsoft Font Suitcases (no visible extension). If you install the font on your Mac the regular way (double click and click install), Inkscape should have acces to it. To force the refresh of the font library on startup, delete a file via a command in Terminal: rm ~/.inkscape/.fccache-new Inkscape will rebuild the font cache on next startup.

I tried forcing the font library refresh on both versions of Inkscape, original dmg and the new one, to no avail. I searched for the font Curlz under finder and it shows up in the Fonts directory... I noticed there are several other fonts that are in the fonts directory but dont show up in Inkscape.

OK, that's to be expected with font suitcases unfortunately. They can easily be converted to their ttf elemental form though. See the FAQ about that.

Please send this the needed info to Gail too, she's the font expert.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about it etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the semester and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to it. I am cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the knowledge to have a look. Still, we should try to determine for sure if it could be an issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix that if it is.

Gail