I have recently moved my work from an old laptop to my new one. On my new laptop, Inkscape (which is likely a slightly newer version than that on my old laptop) is not correctly rendering any of the Greek letters in my figures. A sigma is shown as an 's', etc.
All letters were composed in verdana using copy/paste from character map in Windows XP. They have transferred to two other computers correctly (and obviously show up correctly on the old laptop). I can compose NEW Greek letters via this method on these SVG's perfectly. I am using Version .45.1. Other special figures, like the bullet and the infinity symbol, rendered fine.
Any ideas?
I searched the forum for the keywords "Greek letters" but I found nothing useful.
The only thing I can think of off hand is that you had additionally fonts installed on the old machines and not currently installed on the new one. Inkscape will default to a similiar font as it can if the correct font is not installed.
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
On 10/23/07, Nihixul <thomas.horine@...155...> wrote:
I have recently moved my work from an old laptop to my new one. On my new laptop, Inkscape (which is likely a slightly newer version than that on my old laptop) is not correctly rendering any of the Greek letters in my figures. A sigma is shown as an 's', etc.
All letters were composed in verdana using copy/paste from character map in Windows XP. They have transferred to two other computers correctly (and obviously show up correctly on the old laptop). I can compose NEW Greek letters via this method on these SVG's perfectly. I am using Version .45.1. Other special figures, like the bullet and the infinity symbol, rendered fine.
Any ideas?
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Context: (Verdana) Greek letters on Inkscape SVG's composed on old laptop show up as (Verdana) Latin counterparts when the files are loaded into Inkscape on a new laptop.
Joshua Blocher wrote:
The only thing I can think of off hand is that you had additionally fonts installed on the old machines and not currently installed on the new one. Inkscape will default to a similiar font as it can if the correct font is not installed.
I considered that originally, but the text is in verdana, and Inkscape (on the new laptop) recognizes (and displays) it as such. These images are finished, so it isn't imperative that I edit these files (the .eps files I embed in my thesis, also copied from the old laptop, are rendering correctly), but if I did have to update them for some reason, I would have to correct all of the Greek letters.
On 10/24/07, Nihixul <thomas.horine@...155...> wrote:
Context: (Verdana) Greek letters on Inkscape SVG's composed on old laptop show up as (Verdana) Latin counterparts when the files are loaded into Inkscape on a new laptop.
Joshua Blocher wrote:
The only thing I can think of off hand is that you had additionally fonts installed on the old machines and not currently installed on the new one. Inkscape will default to a similiar font as it can if the correct font is not installed.
I considered that originally, but the text is in verdana, and Inkscape (on the new laptop) recognizes (and displays) it as such. These images are finished, so it isn't imperative that I edit these files (the .eps files I embed in my thesis, also copied from the old laptop, are rendering correctly), but if I did have to update them for some reason, I would have to correct all of the Greek letters. --
Some more ideas.
Does replacing the incorrect symbol with a correct one still show incorrectly?
Have you tried it with a different font that also has Greek letters and see if that makes a difference?
See how the text shows in other apps. does it show correctly?
Did you shift to/from UTF/Unicode/etc or change locales? I don't know if this could be caused by that or not.
OS, Inkscape version, maybe a sample to look at, and any other info you think matters
These should give use an idea of whether or not it's Inkscape specific and give you better details for filing a bug report with us assuming that it's our bug.
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
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On Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 11:06:01 PM, Joshua wrote:
JB> The only thing I can think of off hand is that you had additionally JB> fonts installed on the old machines and not currently installed on the JB> new one. Inkscape will default to a similiar font as it can if the JB> correct font is not installed.
If new Greek letters can be added and show correctly, its not the font. It sounds to me more as if the transfer involved loading the document into a non Unicode-aware editor. I have seen some text editors produce that sort of 'closest ascii match' substitution.
JB> Joshua L. Blocher JB> verbalshadow
JB> On 10/23/07, Nihixul <thomas.horine@...155...> wrote:
I have recently moved my work from an old laptop to my new one. On my new laptop, Inkscape (which is likely a slightly newer version than that on my old laptop) is not correctly rendering any of the Greek letters in my figures. A sigma is shown as an 's', etc.
All letters were composed in verdana using copy/paste from character map in Windows XP. They have transferred to two other computers correctly (and obviously show up correctly on the old laptop). I can compose NEW Greek letters via this method on these SVG's perfectly. I am using Version .45.1. Other special figures, like the bullet and the infinity symbol, rendered fine.
Any ideas?
I searched the forum for the keywords "Greek letters" but I found nothing useful. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/A-problem-with-Greek-letters-tf4673361.html#a13351532 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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