Comment 3 for bug 600289

Max, thanks for your reply.

Am I right understanding you that we should put shx -> ttf font-name translation table into dxfloader.py? Or maybe even into ft2engine?

If such translation table is ok for dxfloader.py, I could try do it, but if it's deeper - sorry, I can't afford myself to dive in.

Thanks,
Kirill

P.S.

Just for the record: as already said, I have no style['1000'] entry in my DXF, and more, even when attribute 3 references geniso.shx, which is for sure absent on my system, in target SVG I get russian text more or less correctly rendered (as it turned out with fallback uniconvertor font BitstreamVeraSans-Roman).

That's why there is maybe a third option: just use shx font-name as-is, and issue an user-visible warning, that such-and-such dxf font was used without converting to TrueType.

Of course, it's a hack, but maybe if proper solution will be somehow delayed, it's better to have text with default font than not to have any text at all.