Re: [Inkscape-user] is there any way to put math symbols (symbol font) on a picture?

Up spake Duncan Haldane:

The final desired form is pdf...

Is there any hack or workaround to get inkscape to use a characters from a math symbol font? (It seems to recognize things line "wingdings", not just roman characters)

Inkscape should handle all of UTF-8[0]. You enter it the same way as for any other GTK2 app -- hold down double-bucky-cokebottle and type the hex code. I find it easier to cut-and-paste from gucharmap.

If that's not working, you could look into doing something similar to what the ladot script does for dot packages. That's really ugly, so I'd rather not go into it unless the above doesn't work.

[0] Of course, the PostScript export probably doesn't do UTF-8. Go via Scribus, maybe?