On Monday 11 October 2010 09:44:26 Tőkés Ábel wrote:
10/8/2010 3:46 PM keltezéssel, Christopher B. Wright írta:
I've had the same problem with Inkscape in windows. Some truetype fonts aren't detected. The explanation I was given at the time was that Inkscape is very picky about fonts and low quality fonts that don't completely conform to the font specification get ignored. That didn't explain why I could use the same fonts in Linux, though.
Christopher B. Wright
I think that this argument (low quality) can be true only for fonts that are raster-defined. I am not sure if a ttf can be raster-defined (I think it can't). But I am sure that these fonts are vectore-defined (I have checked), so they cannot be low quality.
On the other hand, I am a bit surprised at this argument. If I want to insert a rasterized picture in my svg file, I can do that, can't I? So, if I want to use an ugly, rasterized font in my svg, why can't I?
Abel
The modern forms of fonts, Type 1, Truetype and Open Type, are all vector in nature. Only the original Computer Modern fonts formerly used with TeX were raster in nature (they have since been redone as Type 1.)
If you use a raster font then you have limited choices as far as font size is concerned. If you take a vector font and then rasterize it then you are asking for a double rasterization if/when the document goes to print.
Given the above, why would you want to use a rasterized font?
There seems to be a problem with inkscape finding all the fonts available on a Windows system. I have no answer for that. I use Linux.