Question about PDF to SVG Conversion

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racsol
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Question about PDF to SVG Conversion

Postby racsol » Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:45 pm

Hi guys,

i'm using inkscape to convert a bunch of pdf files to SVG with this command: "inkscape -l out.svg in.pdf". This has been working fine, until i found one pdf that have a custom(embed) font named Verlag. It's possible to embed the font in svg?

Thanks in advance.
Carlos Silva

Jelle
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Re: Question about PDF to SVG Conversion

Postby Jelle » Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:16 am

It is possible to embed fonts in SVG by creating Glyphs and then calling on these Glyphs, much like PDF does and far beyond really, but that is not yet supported in Inkscape. SVG fonts are not fully suported by any browser and Mozilla has refused support for them with some lame excuse of a lack of use cases (my foot!). MSIE doesn't feel like it as Moz doesn't. As far as I know Inkscape doesn't do that, but you might try LibreOffice draw for that. It embeds SVG fonts in the SVG file (tip for those that like to convert full fontsets).


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