Comment 4 for bug 1181623

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carmen fierro (cfierrob) wrote :

My problem *CAN* be related.
I am running Inkscape .92 under Windows7 x64
- File originally created yesterday with font 'sans-serif'; some of the text objects contain a couple of characters in italics; on opening I used to receive the warning 'the font sans-serif italic has been substituted with Verdana...' As I haven't been able to determine which of the Windows fonts Inkscape takes for sans-serif, it's quite possible that it should lack italics.
- Then, text changed throughout to Corbel--which HAS italics!
 * on making the change, the italized letters reverted to normal--had to change by hand again;
 * on opening I GET AGAIN THE WARNING 'the font corbel italic has been substituted with Verdana...'--ONLY NOW I CAN SEE IT'S NOT TRUE! The font verdana on my system LACKS TRUE ITALICS--the font file verdanai.ttf provdes only an oblique version of verdana, WHILE MY DRAWING SHOWS TRUE ITALICS, and they surely look like corbeli.ttf.
- I can add these data, NOT KNOWING WHETHER THEY ARE RELEVANT:
 * my Windows system (OEM) came localized for spanish;
 * I have installed the english version of Inkscape (without translations)
 * my font manager shows in the properties of verdanai.ttf a mark for language-->spanish, while on those for corbeli.ttf-->english (?? both fonts have the complete latin alphabet + extensions, besides other unicode subsets).
Athough in this case the problem seems quite trivial, I have seen a file (coming from a linux user) with a mask of text clones messed up by a font substition when I tried to edit it.
Thanks.