Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial
[This bounced twice yesterday. Third time's the charm.]
I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.)
Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable.
I'm running on Windows XP SP2.
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:21:55PM -0700, George V. Reilly wrote:
[This bounced twice yesterday. Third time's the charm.]
I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.)
It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript.
Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable.
Report this as a bug, including a pointer to where the font can be obtained. Font support for Inkscape has improved but is still not 100% perfect
Bryce
On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote:
I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.)
It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript.
This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work on text until you convert it to path).
(Bryce, please forward this to the list, because it looks like I can't post, again.)
Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable.
Report this as a bug, including a pointer to where the font can be obtained. Font support for Inkscape has improved but is still not 100% perfect
Done. (Twice, unfortunately.) Bug #1190750
Are you using Freetype on Windows to render fonts?
I noticed that a font with a name that is composed of a word, a space and an arabic numeral cannot be used by Inkscape. When I changed the names of these fonts to have the numeral written out (e.g. - from Tombats 7 to Tombats Seven) or to have the numeral connected to the word with a hyphen (e.g. - from Tombats 7 to Tombats-7) the very same font works fine. Unfortunately, I had to use a time-limited sharware app to change the font's name, but there it is.
I guess it's a bug, isn't it?
On 4/27/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote:
Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable.
Report this as a bug, including a pointer to where the font can be obtained. Font support for Inkscape has improved but is still not 100% perfect
Done. (Twice, unfortunately.) Bug #1190750
Are you using Freetype on Windows to render fonts?
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