Various fonts refuse to render properly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On my system some fonts refuse to render properly in
Inkscape. This however only seems to effect some of my
fonts and in other applications (like Gimp) even those
fonts work fine.
I have no idea as to how/why this happened and I used
to be able to use all my installed fonts in Inkscape,
but something seems broken or badly configured
somewhere on my system.
I'm currently using the 0.42.2 version of Inkscape on
an AMD64 Gentoo system with a 2.6.11 Linux kernel. And
as said before, everything else concerning my fonts
seem to work without any problems what so ever.
To provide you all with some more in depth information
please check out the following examples:
Screenshots of fonts in Inkscape/Gimp on my system:
http://
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...as you may see from the shots, "Arial Black" works
both in Inkscape and Gimp, while both "Chicago" and
"Lucidia Bright" only look as they should in Gimp. Also
please note that "Lucidia Bright" is a PCF font, while
the others are TTF.
The Module and Files sections of my xorg.conf file:
http://
Installed packages on my system needed by Inkscape:
http://
Some parts of /usr/share/fonts/ on my system:
http://
If more information would be required to resolve this
issue I'll of course provide such on request.
...and last but not least, any help or tips would be
really appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Mr. n0id
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in inkscape: | |
assignee: | Richard Hughes (cyreve) → nobody |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Committed |
milestone: | none → 0.49 |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Ok, here's my latest take on this issue. It seems the
problem has to do with the mapping of the fonts. After
editing the Chicago TTF with a font editor and adding
"Microsoft Unicode BMP only" mapping to the font (used to
only have Apple mapping) it now works as it should in Inkscape.
Maybe this info could shed some light on where the problem
is located and how to resolve it. To be frank I'm not that
familiar with various fonts and their makeup, but maybe
someone with such knowledge could sort this out!?
// n0id