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Hi, everyone.
If I select some text and open the Text & Font dialogue I can select Helvetica Normal no problem, however if I select Helvetica Black, Narrow, or Ultra <anything>, I just get Normal.
Similar things happen in Gill Sans, Futura, Frutiger etc.
If I try to edit the xml to show any of these varients the xml editor replaces them with "normal".
Anyone know why?
Thoams Worthington
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Hey Thomas!
It's a known problem and I'm sure there is a bug about it (because if there hasn't been, I have reported it). Point is that as for now Inkscape only supports the standard tags as you know them from html, such as bold and italic. Unfortunately I do not know about a work around.
Take care!
David
PS: In case I'm wrong, please somebody correct me :) it's just what I remember from when I asked that question myself.
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:07 +0100, Thomas Worthington wrote:
Hi, everyone.
If I select some text and open the Text & Font dialogue I can select
Helvetica Normal no problem, however if I select Helvetica Black, Narrow, or Ultra <anything>, I just get Normal.
Similar things happen in Gill Sans, Futura, Frutiger etc.
If I try to edit the xml to show any of these varients the xml editor replaces them with "normal".
Anyone know why?
Thoams Worthington
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On 2007-May-12 , at 15:07 , Thomas Worthington wrote:
If I select some text and open the Text & Font dialogue I can
select Helvetica Normal no problem, however if I select Helvetica Black, Narrow, or Ultra <anything>, I just get Normal.
Similar things happen in Gill Sans, Futura, Frutiger etc.
If I try to edit the xml to show any of these varients the xml editor replaces them with "normal".
What OS are you using Inkscape on? In which format are your fonts (ttf, pfb, otf, dfont,...)?
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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