I have a special need that I need help with. I want to import (or paste) text into Inkscape from MS Word. Then I need a vector output to take to my vinyl sign printer. The problem is that the font used is Slavonic, an ancient form of Russian with all sorts of diacritical marks. I can easily produce this in Word, but when I try to paste it or import it into an illustrator type program, the text comes out in some gibberish generic font. I need to take that Slavonic text and make it a vector file for the printer. Any ideas? Will Inkscape do this? Thanks!

Alexis

Have you tried selecting that text and changing its font to Slavonic? You can do it from the Text toolbar or by using the Text dialogue.

I assume you'll have to convert the text to paths before sending to the cutter. Inkscape groups the letters after converting to paths so you might need to ungroup them.

Prkos,

I hate to wear your patience, but I still am having problems. I can't simply paste text...it comes out wildly spaced with many letters missing. However, when I import it as a pdf file it looks fine. The problem is how do I select all the text to select the font and resize? I can't seem to figure it out using the text editor box. No text shows up in the text tab. I'm not that experienced with illustrator programs unfortunately. Thanks.

Alexis

Take your WORD document and export it or save it as a .pdf file.. Once it is in .pdf format IMPORT the pdf file into inkscape, the ghostscript applies to importing .pdf and .eps files this posting should help you setup ghostscript

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Copy some text from the Word file, and in Inkscape select Text tool from the left toolbar. Click somewhere on canvas to create a text object, you will see a blinking cursor, then paste the text (Ctrl + V).

Select Selector tool from the left toolbar, the text object will be selected, look in the statusbar and read what it says, it should say it's a text object and what font is used. If it's not Slavonic select Text tool again and on the text toolbar select the Slavonic font family.

Can you copy text this way without problems? I doubt it will mess up kerning but if it does try to remove manual kerning using the option under Text menu.

vwanweb wrote:Take your WORD document and export it or save it as a .pdf file.. Once it is in .pdf format IMPORT the pdf file into inkscape, the ghostscript applies to importing .pdf and .eps files this posting should help you setup ghostscript

You do not need Ghostscript installed to open or import PDF files into Inkscape.

Ghostscript is only needed to import PS and EPS files (the PostScript-based files are converted on-the-fly to PDF using ps2pdf from Ghostscript and then imported as normal PDF files without depending on external tools).