Hello,

I am a new user to Inkscape (OSX 10.6.8, Inkscape 0.48)

I checked the forum and saw that this issue was referred to several times already, but none of the below answers worked for me...

Problem: when opening a PDF file in Inkscapes, some of the fonts are not recognised, and changed.
(music notation fonts, e.g. Helsinky.dfont, Opus.dfont and such, from Sibelius software).

What I have tried already:
(with the links for the relevant forum discussion)

1. Copying the missing fonts from: [User] > Library > Fonts to: Library > Fonts
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1187
2. Changing the fonts.conf file
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12772
3. First converting my .pdf to .svg and only then opening with Inkscape
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15793&p=58657&hilit=fonts#p58657
4. When importing to Inkscape, unchecking the 'Replace PDF fonts by the closest-namedinstalled fonts'

Funny enough, in Inkscape's text dialog the proper fonts do appear and are ready to use.

Thanks!

ilya

Hello:
W.O.W. It's coincidence? Today there are a lot of problems with font managing and OS X.
Again... There is a problem when importing pdf fonts to Inkscape.
I said this from a user to other.
Do a search in this forum and you will see.

The Sibelius website says it can export SVG... how does that look in Inkscape?

And, do the fonts stay as text, or are they paths?

hello, thanks for replying.

tylerdurden wrote:The Sibelius website says it can export SVG... how does that look in Inkscape?

- Sibelius ver. 7 only enables export / import of SVG, I am still with 6...

And, do the fonts stay as text, or are they paths?

I think as a font, since I am able to select each of the "letters" with the text tool. I am not sure though (as I said, i am new to Inkscape...)
I attach to images:
first one is Inkscape's version, second is how the PDF originally looks. You'll notice that Inkscape is good when dealing with the instrument name and a few other components, but the note heads, the clef sign and time signature are strangely transformed.





I will give another forum search for recent similar topics.

open the pdf in inkscape. save it as svg. open the svg in a text editor and check for font-names.
What are they ?

v1nce wrote:open the pdf in inkscape. save it as svg. open the svg in a text editor and check for font-names.
What are they ?

this is an example of what the text editor says:

style="font-size:96px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;writing-mode:lr-tb;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none;font-family:Helsinki;-inkscape-font-specification:Helsinki"></tspan></text>

so it seems the font is still Helsinki, but Inkscape changes the character to

...sorry, i have only now re-uploaded the images correctly...