Comment 5 for bug 168658

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AnnaMarburg (marburgster) wrote :

Not only does inkscape silently replace fonts, it does so even if you un-tick the "Replace PDF fonts by closest-named installed fonts" box

This happened to me with inkscape-0.47pre3-2.leopard+.dmg; OSX 10.6.1.

The file started life as a map in ESRI's ArcMap software, was exported as an .ai file and then modified by my office's graphics department using a recent version of adobe illustrator and sent to me as a .pdf

Adobe reader indicates that the pdf contains 3 fonts: HelveticaNeueCE - Roman, N261 and N268. N261 and N268 are embedded, so it looks like illustrator made names for them, as I cant find them on the web.

N261 appears to be the text that was in the original map (I think it's arial ) Inkscape uses Bitstream Vera Sans - which turns out to be acceptable for my purposes. The text added by my graphics department using illustrator (don't know the version, but it's recent) is in font N268. Inkscape replaces N268 with Helvetica CY - as the text was written in english, displaying it in cyrillic characters is quite problematic.