We use 100% command line - so cannot tell if the GUI part works. We use Inkscape on a backend server to a web (html/javascript) product designer to merge and convert various parts of the design.

Ok I have managed to get a work around for this. First step is exporting to PDF using: inkscape -z -f sample-text.svg --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=sample-text..pdf This converts the text to paths - it seems --export-text-to-path only works for PDF, PS and EPS Then I convert the PDF to PNG and ...

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I'm using Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 and Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886 (Dec 29 2012)

Just tried the "text-to-path" but doesn't seem to do the trick, I suspect it's the arc'd path that causes it. I followed these steps: inkscape jm2.svg --export-plain-svg=jm2b.svg --export-text-to-path when I look at jm2b.svg the text is still plain text?? I don't have the GUI so cannot tes...

Text is already a path - check the attached svg file. Also we use command line in batch mode?

I'm exporting a svg file with only text to png and some characters are being chopped off?? From the command line I do "inkscape -z -f 'sample-text.svg' -w 2770 -h 1180 -e 'sample-text.png' I've tried to increase image size etc but it does this with quite a few of the font's I'm using? Any sugge...