TEXT stroke bug

[Alexander Bonivento]

System:

Inkscape 0.45+devel
Cairo 1.4.12
librsvg2 2.16.1

The SVG source i tested with:

<svg width="24in" height="24in" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="24" height="24" style="fill: none;" />
<g transform="translate(12,12)">
<text id="text_8_1_check_s" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 1; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #FA002C; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: #000000; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 0.083333333333333;">SCHOOL BOARD</text>
<text id="text_8_1_check" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 1; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #FA002C; fill-opacity: 1;">SCHOOL BOARD</text>
</g>
</svg>

The export command i used:
inkscape -z svgsource.svg --export-pdf=test.pdf --export-text-to-path

The bug:
There are broken points in the outlines of the exported PDF (for example, look the top-left corner of the "B" letter).
It may be the new rederer of pdf based on Cairo?

[bbyak (buliabyak)]

Please try with latest cairo 1.5, it has many changes in pdf backend

[Alexander Bonivento (redna379)]

No luck: i tested with the very latest cairo-1.5.4, issue is still there.
You can check the attached PDF, created starting from the abovementioned SVG source.

It seems to an inkscape issue: i tested an SVG => PDF conversion using Carl Worth's svg2pdf utility, and it created the PDF with correct outline (not broken).
If i'm not wrong, that utility uses cairo and librsvg, so i definitively think cairo is "not guilty".

Is there some other test you want me to try?

[theAdib (theadib)]

this is an Inkscape internal renderer bug.
If Inkscape convert text to path then begin and end points are not joined.
The same behaviour will happen when you apply a filter to text element.
Adib.

[theAdib (theadib)]

I higher importance as text is a very basic SVG shape. Adib.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

I can't reproduce this with Inkscape 0.47pre4 and Inkscape 0.46+devel r22544 on OS X 10.5.8 (cairo 1.8.8)

The outline of stroked text is rendered closed (without broken points) in the exported PDF file.
(Note: currently the rendering of stroked text on-canvas in Inkscape is broken in 0.47pre builds - see bug #445790, but this (and the included patch by Johan) doesn't affect the EPS export)