Underlined text is not exported to PDF

[Dominik šelmeci]

Hi
I am using Inkscape 0.91 for exporting SVG -> PDF (Windows 8.1). The SVG is generated in the browser where to set the Text style: style="text-decoration: underline;". When I open this svg in Inkscape the text is correctly underlined. But when i export it to PDF it dissapears. This feature is very important for me and I'm willing to pay for it. Can you help me please?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Reproduced with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 and 0.91+devel r14212, cairo 1.14.2, on OS X 10.7.5: exporting text decoration (bug #172133, bug #1269206) to PDF is not yet supported.

[razvan (nsyncpilu)]

Does anyone know where to modify in inkscape source code for this to work?
I really need to get this one going right away

[Simon (greyshade)]

Is there any progress on this? export of any 'text-decoration' (i.e. underline, overline, strikthrough, etc) fails for export to pdf, eps, emf and tex.

the patches from bug #172133 seem to have made it into the release correctly showing 'text-decoration's but nothing has been done to keep those when exporting?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

@Simon Rommel: there's a prerelease source package available (and if you're on Ubuntu >= 16.04, there's a --candidate (channel) snap package available of pre5, too):
https://inkscape.org/download/development-versions/ (snap not listed)

Could you try it out and report back?

Final release will also be available soon.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

The requested feature is not yet supported with upcoming Inkscape 0.92 (tested with lp:inkscape/0.92.x r15295 and cairo 1.15.5 (git master) on OS X 10.7.5).

[Simon (greyshade)]

I confirm that this is not supported in the current Inkscape 0.92pre5 r15287 (Win 32 and 64bit).

[Victor Westmann (victor.westmann)]

Would love to see this implemented in the next 0.93 release. +1

[Maksim Melnikov (mksmelnikov)]

Bug still exists in Inkscape 0.92.3 (3ce5693, 2018-03-11)
`inkscape --export-pdf ...` gives pdf-file without underlines. That`s very bad, guys.

[Arkadeep Banerjee (arkadeep12)]

The bug still exists but I think I found a work around - if bitmap is used instead of vector (which is the default option) the pdf will have the text underlined.