incomplete pdf import

[klausrohwer]

I tried to import a pdf document containing written music produced by band-in-a-box. In the preview the notes appeared, but in the working area instead of notes only letters and lines showed up, though I tried to embed all fonts during pdf creation - I tried, but I'm not quite sure I succeeded. Please try attached file!

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape build 21627

The original pdf file looks normal, the Inkscape preview looks normal, but the loaded file is not correct. For example the eighth note 'e' has been replaced by the letter 'e'. The font is declared as font-family:PGMusicF.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

 reproduced with Inkscape 0.46+devel r21714 on OS X 10.5.7, additional tests with:
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 (with Sun's PDF Import extension 1.0) can't keep or convert the music notation symbols either (the result looks identical to the imported PDF in Inkscape)
- GIMP 2.6.6 keeps the music notation symbols on PDF import, but converts all to bitmap/raster format.
- Preview.app displays the attached PDF testfile correctly: all text and note symbols are selectable with the text tool (-> font), the staves and slurs not (-> path)

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Pennies From Heaven.pdf: PDF Producer: AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 / FreePDF XP 3.26 - http://shbox.de
PGMusicF: appears to be a proprietary font from PGmusic.com

[Pablo Trabajos (pajarico)]

What would the expected result be? The font is not opened by Inkscape (which I thought was expected since embedded fonts are never loaded) and it is rendered with the default Sans font since the real font "PGMusicF" is not installed. Please try installing that font.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@Pablo - from a users perspective:
1) the software used to create the PDF needs to alert the user about the difference between
   - font embedding
   - conversion of text to paths
2) misleading preview in Inkscape: if the preview can render the embedded fonts, the user expects the imported file to look the same on canvas (i.e. 'import text as path' needs to be implemented for PDF import!)
3) If GIMP can do it - why not Inkscape?

below the fold from comment #3:
Pennies From Heaven.pdf: PDF Producer: AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 / FreePDF XP 3.26 - http://shbox.de
PGMusicF: appears to be a proprietary font from PGmusic.com

[Pablo Trabajos (pajarico)]

Ok, ~suv. I would expect the fonts to be turned to paths on importing, it seems that this is impossible (I don't see that option). Or even better would be to have the fonts embedded as SVGfonts on the SVG file.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Linking as duplicate to earlier reported bug #239631 in Inkscape: “Musical Truetype font not listed and not available in v0.46 w32” <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/239631>. Please add a comment and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues.