SVG with Nimbus Sans L gets Courier in PDF

[Aricblumer]

I have an SVG file (attached) that uses Nimbus Sans L,
but when I save as PDF with Text and Graphics, the font
shown in both acroread and evince is Courier. I've
attached both.

[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

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[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

More information. This is with Fedora Core 6 and inkscape
0.44.1. I was going to attach output of
FC_DEBUG=8191 fc-list

But the file is too big. Let me know if you want to see any
fc-list output.

[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

Here are a couple more files that show interesting things.
I have arial truetype font available, and if I select it in
inkscape, and then put in more text as Nimbus Sans L, then
the Arial is shown with Nimbus Sans L, the Nimbus Sans L is
correct, and another font MgOpen Moderna is shown as
Courier. The SVG file shows Arial, Nimbus, and Moderna
fonts, each as text and converted to path. Of each pair,
the top is the object to path, and the bottom is as text.
You can see in the PDF that the top line is Arial, but the
second is Nimbus Sans L. For Nimbus, they're both Nimbus.
For Moderna, the error is obvious.

[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

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[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

I have located the source of this problem. There is a font
name problem, apparently. To create a PDF, inkscape
apparently uses postscript output which invokes ghostscript.
 The font name that Inkscape produces in the EPS and PS
files for Nimbus is NimbusSansL-Regu. In ghostscript's
Fontmap.GS file, it has this:
/NimbusSanL-Regu (n019003l.pfb) ;

Note the "San" rather than "Sans".

If I add this line to Fontmap.GS:
/NimbusSansL-Regu (n019003l.pfb) ;
the PDF gets the correct font.
I'll leave this open, because I do not know if the problem
is in ghostscript or inkscape or fontconfig or what.

[Aricblumer (aricblumer)]

One more thing: The adding of the -ISOLatin1 to the font
names by inkscape really messes things up for me. I hacked
the source to remove the -ISOLatin1 suffix, and things work
much, much better.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Originator: NO

Thanks for reporting the workarounds. If you get your hacks into a shape
you feel comfortable sharing with, please post them back here. Meanwhile
this bug can stand open. Maybe someone can take a deeper look into this.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

not reproduced with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9495 on OS X 10.5.8

Fonts are now always embedded into the PDF (Cairo-based PDF export).

$ pdffonts 168077-nimbus_prob.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ -------------- --- --- --- ---------
SNKYUK+NimbusSansL-Regu Type 1C yes yes no 8 0

$ pdffonts 168077-nimbus_prob-r9495.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ -------------- --- --- --- ---------
NimbusSansL Type 1 yes no yes 5 0

$ pdffonts 168077-junk.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ -------------- --- --- --- ---------
GRBGND+ArialMT Type 1C yes yes no 8 0
KZTRDN+MgOpenModerna Type 1C yes yes no 10 0
KJZAGF+NimbusSansL-Regu Type 1C yes yes no 12 0
ISWFXU+NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu Type 1C yes yes no 14 0
OFRIFU+NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu-ISOLatin1 Type 1C yes yes no 16 0

$ pdffonts 168077-junk-r9495.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ -------------- --- --- --- ---------
Arial CID TrueType yes no yes 5 0
MgOpenModerna CID TrueType yes no yes 6 0
NimbusSansL Type 1 yes no yes 7 0
NimbusRomanNo9L Type 1 yes no yes 8 0