Cleaning up imported EPS, various issues...

[Alex Farlie]

In the attached file ( which is under the terms of the UK Open Government License) when I use the font dialog in 0.9.1 to select ALL the text using a particular font, it selects the objects by bounding box only.

Steps to reproduce...

Open the attached file in Inkscape ( Text is in Fira Sans Light and Fira Sans Normal).

Select a text item using the text tool, The standard handles (i.e a dotted outline, and a square representing the text baseline appear.)

Now use the Page/Warning triangle icon next to the Font name on the toolbar.

If the font is installed the text will select as a group.

Expected behaviour : It should then be possible to edit the "text" objects or convert them en-masse to paths, etc (i.e the text basline markers should appear)

Actual behaviour: Text is not selected as 'text' items (no text baseline marker appears) meaning it is not possible to convert them using Object to path. (To actually convert them I have to manually select using the Node tool ALL the text objects I wish to convert manually, which is excessively time-consuming.)

It would be nice if there was some way of selecting all the "text" OBJECTS using a particular font, in a manner that they CAN then be mass converted to paths, or have object/path options applied to them WITHOUT having to manually node select.

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

Original EPS file pre-conversion

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

What Inkscape imported, (and which had to be cleaned up.)

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

There may be an additional glitch in how the Inkscape/Ghostscript import functions group text. (but I am suspecting the glitch may well be in the original files.)

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Thanks for taking the time to file a report!

You can select all text objects with either the Edit>Select Same>Object Type menu (Shift+Alt+A), or the Find/Replace dialog (Ctrl+F) if you need to select a specific font (Search in properties).

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

Title ammmended.

[Alex Farlie (afarlie)]

I've ammended the title because of some additional concerns that arose.

See also : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1576665 (which may need to be merged with this one.)