exporting to PDF problems (text-to-paths)

[Jaromir Coufal]

When I am exporting *.svg file from Inkscape (win32build version Inkscape21345-0905140303.7z) to PDF 1.4, when I check "Convert text to paths" some text is converted and some text is missing (I think this text object was imported from another *.svg created in Inkscape). And the converted text is ugly to see, edges are not clean as you can see in attached file, the width of the letters' trace is differen.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

could you attach the .svg file ?

[Jaromir Coufal (jaromir-coufal-deactivatedaccount)]

yes of course...I attached a version without print-borders, but problems are the same

[Vladimir Savic (vladimir-firefly-savic)]

Missing text is bug.

As of converted text looking ugly, I really have no idea how that can be improved. Scribus has the same problem when exporting text as outlines. Antialiasing is simply wrong. But not a bug deal since you can print it just fire. For on-screen reading everybody should include fonts, not outline them. First it's much faster to load that PDF. Second, Looks incomparably better. And the third - it will produce smaller PDFs. Might not be the entire truth for documents fit few lines of text, but it is with large textual pages.

Look at sizes of this example document. Basically, I've just created blank page and filled it with Lorem Ipsum... text (size 14, I think).

17K May 29 22:05 embedded.pdf
36M May 29 22:06 outline.pdf

[Jaromir Coufal (jaromir-coufal-deactivatedaccount)]

I know about file sizes, but when I create professional designes for printing on plotter printers, some printer companies want formats with objects in curves (no text objects). I think more people then just me need to use text-to-path correctly.

When I select text object and convert it manually in menu Path / Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C), then it is ok. So where is the problem when checking this function when exporting PDF? I think the algorithm has to be the same. Somewhere has to be any difference.

A little problem (I think bug too) is when I convert text to path (talking about manual converting) including letter "L" in small case or letter "i" in upper case (Arial font). After exporting to PDF it changes its width and is thicker than original letter (like attached file). Other letters are ok, only these two are problematic I think because of their look like rectangle.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

duplicate of bug #388257: “Inkscape 0.47Pre: PDF/PS Export 'Text to Paths' gives inconsistent results”

If you don't agree please add a comment and revert the duplicate status.