Cairo PDF export cuts last characters from strings containing ligatures

[Asbjørn Clemmensen]

When exporting a drawing to PDF in Inkscape 0.46, the last character gets chopped off some strings. I can't seem to come up with a reasonable explanation for this. I've tested this error in Evince and Acrobat.

This error does not occur when converting strings to paths, but then the PDF grows huge.

I've made a screenshot showing this occuring, with the PDF on one side and the Inkscape view on the other. Sorry about the blurriness of the Inscape example.

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

I also have been bitten by this bug. I a small svg text with this bahaviour, as well as the corresponding Cairo-exported pdf. The SVG is fairly minimal (default empty document + a short string "amplifier", which becomes "amplifie" in the pdf)

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

I just did further tests : The proble seems to be linked to ligatures (ff and fi). See attached files

[Vianney le Clément (vleclement)]

I've got this problem too. I don't recall seeing this in inkscape 0.45.

The problem indeed seems to be linked with ligatures. If a line contains a ligature with 2 letters (ff, fi, fl, etc.), the last character is missing in the pdf export. If a line contains a ligature with 3 letters (ffl), the 2 last characters are missing in the pdf export. One workaround for now is to add a space or two at the end of those lines.

Any progress?

BTW, I'm using ubuntu hardy amd64 (but it also happened on 32 bits), inkscape 0.46-0ubuntu2 and cairo 1.6.0-0ubuntu2.

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

This bug is still present in Intrepid.

I suspect this bug to be related to Cairo more than Inkscape, since it comes through Cairo's pdf export. Is it possible to test Cairo svg2pdf algorithm without Inkscape to be sure ?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed in 0.46, but it works well in build 20997 and svg2pdf (cairo 1.8.0), Ubuntu 8.10.

Could someone confirm a fix in Inkscape or Cairo?

[theAdib (theadib)]

higher severity because of duplicates and the fact that this issue destroys information (text) in the output.

[theAdib (theadib)]

can reproduce in version 0.46 but it does not exists in current devel revision 21257.
I don't know who fixed this.
Adib.

[Frédéric Grosshans (fgrosshans)]

It is solved in Inkscape 0.47 in karmic. Thanks to the anonymous developper(s) who fixed this !