Hello, I'm using Inkscape 0.43 on MacOS 10.4.5, and I encountered a couple of problems when preparing a very simple drawing to be printed (it only contained two labels):
1. first of all, I don't understand if/how can I print a drawing; Inkscape does not seem to access system printers (like other X11 apps, e.g. Gimp.app, do instead), and printing with its default options does not seem to have any result;
2. then, I also noticed that not all my available fonts show up in the text properties dialog, e.g. I downloaded today a free font called "Aardvark Cafe", it shows up correctly in Gimp.app, but it's not shown in the Inkscape font list.
Any clues? Thanks a lot.
- then, I also noticed that not all my available fonts show up in the
text properties dialog, e.g. I downloaded today a free font called "Aardvark Cafe", it shows up correctly in Gimp.app, but it's not shown in the Inkscape font list.
I've also seen this problem with some fonts on OSX. I usually use Inkscape on Linux where the same font works.
I think the font was this one: http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=a_yummy_apology
Thanks, -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it.
I had this problem and solved it after a bit of fiddling around. The same thing can happen on Linux and can be solved analogously. That's the good news, but I now have to confess that I cannot remember the details...
The problem in my case was the format of the font file. I had bought a font in OTF format. Looking at the font in question, I see that I now have it in DFONT format, which works OK with Inkscape. (I think TTF worked too, but I'm not sure.)
To convert the font from OTF to DFONT, I used FontForge, an X11 application available from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/. It should work with other formats too. The installer, a PKG file, silently hides fontforge in /usr/local/bin.
Hope this helps
Stephen Winnall
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On 7 Mar 2006, at 00:53, Michael Moore wrote:
- then, I also noticed that not all my available fonts show up in
the text properties dialog, e.g. I downloaded today a free font called "Aardvark Cafe", it shows up correctly in Gimp.app, but it's not shown in the Inkscape font list.
I've also seen this problem with some fonts on OSX. I usually use Inkscape on Linux where the same font works.
I think the font was this one: http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=a_yummy_apology
Thanks,
Michael Moore
www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it.
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Stephen Winnall ha scritto:
The problem in my case was the format of the font file. I had bought a font in OTF format. Looking at the font in question, I see that I now have it in DFONT format, which works OK with Inkscape. (I think TTF worked too, but I'm not sure.)
Thanks, I will try Fontforge, but actually my main problem currently is that I cannot print from Inkscape. :-/
Marco De Vitis ha scritto:
Thanks, I will try Fontforge, but actually my main problem currently is that I cannot print from Inkscape. :-/
Thanks to the "Printing command in Linux" thread, I now discovered that putting "| lp" in the print dialog works in OS X, too, printing on the default printer. And "| lp -d <printername>" prints elsewhere. I'd still need to discover how to make some kind of print options dialog appear, if possible, but anyway I can print on a virtual PDF printer and then print the resulting PDF with Preview and the standard OS X print dialog.
Thanks :).
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