Inkscape

Editing imported PDF cause zero width font

Bug #1249300 reported by ole.tange on 2013-11-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #188794: Broken editing of text with absolute kerning. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Version: Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939

When I edit the attached PDF file the cursor does not progress when entering a letter, but letters are written on top of each other.

I regularly hit PDF files having the same problem.

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ole.tange (n-launchpad-net-tange-dk) wrote on 2013-11-08:

Screenshot showing the problem in one place and no problem one line below Edit (525.4 KiB, image/png)

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ole.tange (n-launchpad-net-tange-dk) wrote on 2013-11-08:

Tribun-Cat.pdf Edit (114.7 KiB, application/pdf)

The PDF file

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2013-11-08:

> I regularly hit PDF files having the same problem.

Please read the 'Text editing Tips' in the section 'PDF and AI import' of the release notes for Inscape 0.46:
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.46#PDF_and_AI_import>

The notes also explain why text in imported PDF always uses absolutely kerning to position each letter (AFAIU the kerning information of fonts is not saved inside PDFs with embedded and subsetted fonts).

The underlying issue of this report is Inkscape's missing feature to edit absolutely kerned text:
Bug #188794 “Broken editing of text with absolute kerning”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/188794>

Proposing to link as duplicate to bug #188794.

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added: importing pdf text