I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure.
Is anybody else seeing this?
Anyway, it can render a program quite useless if you happen to not be able to use a requred font…
-Sebastian
I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure.
Is anybody else seeing this?
Anyway, it can render a program quite useless if you happen to not be able to use a requred font…
I believe the answer is to use fondu to convert your fonts to Unix friendly fonts.
On 2007-March-03 , at 20:30 , Sebastian Winkler wrote:
I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure.
I think I answered a similar question a little while ago (maybe it was you! ;-) ). You can search the list archives for a similar problem. To cut a long story short: it is indeed a problem in the way Pango (the lib Inkscape uses to manage fonts) handles .dfont (and some .suit) fonts. The only solution I found is to converter everything to individual ttf files (like Times.dfont becomes TimesRegular.ttf, TimesItalic.ttf and so on) with fondu or/and fontforge (both are available via Fink, DarwinPorts or with standalone installers). Beware though: - you'll end up with duplicated fonts, you need to suppress or disable one version (the dfont one a priori) - do not disable system fonts (if you need system fonts in TTF for X11 apps, put them in an X11 specific directory, such as ~/.fonts) - this can cause problems with Firefox which mozilla guys do not seem ready to solve soon because the problem seems unconsistent in its appearance
hope this helps.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
Sure it helps. But it's not a particularly attractive solution. Oh well… :S Thanks anyway. Sebastian
On 03.03.2007, at 19:41, jiho wrote:
On 2007-March-03 , at 20:30 , Sebastian Winkler wrote:
I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure.
I think I answered a similar question a little while ago (maybe it was you! ;-) ). You can search the list archives for a similar problem. To cut a long story short: it is indeed a problem in the way Pango (the lib Inkscape uses to manage fonts) handles .dfont (and some .suit) fonts. The only solution I found is to converter everything to individual ttf files (like Times.dfont becomes TimesRegular.ttf, TimesItalic.ttf and so on) with fondu or/and fontforge (both are available via Fink, DarwinPorts or with standalone installers). Beware though:
- you'll end up with duplicated fonts, you need to suppress or
disable one version (the dfont one a priori)
- do not disable system fonts (if you need system fonts in TTF for
X11 apps, put them in an X11 specific directory, such as ~/.fonts)
- this can cause problems with Firefox which mozilla guys do not seem
ready to solve soon because the problem seems unconsistent in its appearance
hope this helps.
JiHO
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On 3/3/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
it is indeed a problem in the way Pango (the lib Inkscape uses to manage fonts) handles .dfont (and some .suit) fonts. The only solution I found is to converter everything to individual ttf files (like Times.dfont becomes TimesRegular.ttf, TimesItalic.ttf and so on) with fondu or/and fontforge (both are available via Fink, DarwinPorts or with standalone installers). Beware though:
- you'll end up with duplicated fonts, you need to suppress or
disable one version (the dfont one a priori)
- do not disable system fonts (if you need system fonts in TTF for
X11 apps, put them in an X11 specific directory, such as ~/.fonts)
- this can cause problems with Firefox which mozilla guys do not seem
ready to solve soon because the problem seems unconsistent in its appearance
I added this to the FAQ:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Inkscape_does_not_see_some_of_th...
If anyone knows more, please edit the FAQ directly.
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