Hello everyone and thank you in advance for taking time to read my post.

I have some issues when opening emf files with inkscape : every textbox having special characters aren't taken into account.
The files come from M$ Excel, and I'm using the 0.48.1 version.

Please, here is an example at this address :
https://sites.google.com/site/shinkeitempfile/files

Again, thanks in advance for your solution(s).
Regards, Shinkei.

dunno, it seemed to work when I tried it.

just a guess, maybe the font needs to be available to inlscape when you try to import the file?

my 2 cents, I like to try and avoid font issues by converting them to shapes before I save them for another program. A) I don't know it excel can do that B) I know that this is always practical
I also tried to open the file with LibreOffice, seemed to work.

shinkei wrote:I have some issues when opening emf files with inkscape : every textbox having special characters aren't taken into account.

In revision 10045, unicode support was recently added to EMF import (and the fix was backported to 0.48.2). Possibly this helps with those files (unless they use some other encoding for the special characters).

I can't test the files myself (EMF import is only available in the Windows build of Inkscape, and I don't work on Windows) - but you could test with a recent development build from modevia (note: these are unstable development builds and not recommended for productive use) or the upcoming 0.48.2 bug-fix release.

Thank you very much for replying me.
I indeed think it's a character encoding problem.

This picture comes from excel with a macro I found on google to export a chart to EMF file.
I've found an third way to export a chart with correct font by printing it with PDFcreator.

However, I don't understand why special characters works with PDF files and not EMF...
(Damn M$ ! Still have to use it at work...)

So the problem is more or less fixed as I bypass it, and thus sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards