Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Dear Inkscapers,
I wonder how hard it would be to provide a feature to save the fonts along with the SVG documents, and even maybe use them in future usage of this document... Except for the delicacy of font-parsing, it tastes like something that would be useful to all!
I know that we've looked into this some in the past, especially as Adobe is fond of doing it with SVG exported from Illustrator.
Things would probably be in two phases. First would be supporting embedded fonts. Then second would be creating embedded fonts themselves.
From the user's side, this is covered in RFE 863323 "FONTS: embedded SVG font support"
Now... for some cases you might want a document to render properly even if the end users don't have the same font installed, but not need further editing. Sometimes getting the text selected and converting to path is a viable option.