Hi,
On Nov 22, 2007 2:36 AM, iuri kothe <iurikothe@...155...> wrote:
I need to bold some words in a text object. This works fine on Linux & Win, but under OSX (10.4.10 & X11) i can't even have bold in Verdana.
This Wiki FAQ looks related: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ # 3.10 Inkscape does not see some of the fonts (Mac OSX)
but seems problematic (i use FireFox a lot).
use camino ;)
Is there a way to overcome this issue? install some fonts in X11?
You could convert the fonts to TTF as explained in the wiki (fondu, fontforge) and install them in an X11-only location such as ~/.fonts. You'll end up with some duplicates in Inkscape's font list but the TTF among those should display bold.
or maybe compiling inkscape to run without X11?
I'm affraid that won't help. The problem comes from Pango, the library Inkscape uses to get the font and font names, which does not like OS X dfont format. Compiling without X11 will render the font using either cairo or even the native OS X ATSUI system but the font names and faces will still be get through Pango and the same problems are likely to remain.
Hope that helps and sorry for the inconvinience. I have a script which uses fondu and fontforge to convert the fonts to their TTF variants. I'll try to package it in a nice drag and drop app and post it on the wiki, next to the FAQ sometime today or this week end.