sans-serif text cannot be formatted
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Medium
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John Smith |
Bug Description
As I want my SVGs to look good on any system no matter the fonts installed, I like using "sans-serif" as a font. Inkscape does allow me to do this, and displays the text right, but it complains about the font not having been found on the system and - and this is the important thing - doesn't let me make it bold or italic.
To reproduce:
- create a new text object and type something, then change its font to sans-serif (not Sans)
- click the bold/italic button
You will see that this does not work. However, this can be worked around:
- select some other font
- make the text bold/italic
- change the font back to sans-serif
Now you have just what you wanted (bold sans-serif text), and this is how I'm working around the bug right now - but this just is not very intuitive and pretty time-consuming and should be fixed so that you can directly make sans-serif text bold or italic (or, for that matter, remove the boldness/italicness of a piece of sans-serif text).
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Could you please provide information about your OS and Inkscape version (see Inkscape menu 'Help > About Inkscape')?
AFAIU the failure to format a text with an unrecognized font family (in 0.48: "Font not found on system" warning symbol in the font selector on the toolbar) is due to /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/379885>
- Bug #379885 “Generic font-family names not recognized in font lister”
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Related (needs to be addressed in current trunk too): /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/1002757>
- Bug #1002757 “Regressions with new default font 'sans-serif' (r11393)”
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