text gets rendered with ugly, random spacing
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
When I ask Inkscape to render the following SVG file with the command line:
inkscape -z --export-
then the resulting PDF file, as attached below, has quite ugly text. Some characters get run together so that they touch, while other characters have noticable gaps between them. But the big problem is that Inkscape seems unaware of how long each line of text is, and therefore can't do the text-anchor="end" properly that the SVG asks for. As you can see, some letters wind up hanging off the page while others do not, and very few characters happen to align. I am not sure whether this is related to the weird spacing or not; but odd spacing, besides being ugly, might make it hard to predict where a right-edge was going to wind up.
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: exporting pdf text |
Changed in inkscape: | |
milestone: | none → 0.47 |
I note, after some experimentation, that the PS and EPS output do *not* suffer from the above problem. For the moment, therefore, I can survive by making Inkscape output to EPS and then running:
ps2pdf -dEPSCrop file.eps file.pdf