darktable does not render text in overlay/watermark svg-files

[Paul Greindl]

darktable does not render text in svg-files created with inkscape correctly.

To reproduce: make a svg-file containig text with inkscape. Add it to darktable's watermark source and try to apply it to an image. The text will not render. Instead a black box is shown where the text should be.

For example: see attached screenshot.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David (immobilier-frazer)]

Same problem here, except on Darktable's pre-made watermarks.

Ubuntu 13.10
Inkscape 0.48
Darktable 1.4.2

[Paul Seyfert (pseyfert)]

I observed this behaviour too in inkscape 0.48 + darktable 1.6.8.
when creating the svg with libreoffice-draw instead, it works fine.
comparing the svg files, I observed that libreoffice embeds the font into the svg file, inkscape doesn't.
(will hunt down if there's a switch in inkscape now).

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy) reached end-of-life on July 17, 2014.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for darktable (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]