Comment 19 for bug 942050

My version of Inkscape is built without ghostscript support. The delta's you show in the inkscape example are not symbol font, they are coming from somewhere else, maybe ghostscript?

Symbol font is definitely installed on my machine. It looks to me like the invisible delta's are Unicode encoded, which maybe my
symbol font does not support. delta's in symbol should be the ascii letter "d".

Here is a modified example SVG with the two invisible delta's and the word "delta" in symbol font. It looks like:

1. inkscape: delta's invisible, "delta" in greek
2. exported to emf - use "PREVIEW": two delta's visible, "delta" in greek
3. exported to pdf - use pdf viewer: two delta's invisible, "delta" in greek
4. open the svg in seamonkey: two delta's visible, "delta" in english

Even stranger, if the emf from 2 is imported then something else happens. The XML still shows the two delta's and one "delta" string, but "select all" will not select the first two, which it did in the original SVG. The same thing happens if I save the file as "plain svg" and then open it again.