Comment 17 for bug 168658

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Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free) wrote :

The error message isn't quite right in all cases. Inkscape support CSS font fallbacks. You can have a list of fonts such as:

Gobbly Gook, Times New Roman, serif

If Gobbly Gook is not present, Times New Roman will be used. The error message incorrectly reports that another font is being substituted (DejaVu Sans on my Linux system).

Two other notes:

1. The correct fallback fonts of last resort should be "sans-serif" and "serif". These are defined by CSS. I changed the old default "Sans" to sans-serif a couple of months ago. "Sans" is a Cairo thing and not defined by CSS.

2. The font selection entry box will show a warning sign if the font for a selected text object is not present (first font in case of a font list).