Hi everybody,

I am trying to import in Inkscape .emf files generated in another software

The drawings I am working with are made up of contours that include many symbols. As Inkscape does not recognize the font in which the symbols are coded, none of them appear. All the points I am supposed to see are not visible and I cannot select them if I do a selection rectangle. I can only see their location when I select all objects (CTRL+A), then I see the small white squares which are present close to any text box.


I am not interested in the shape of the symbols that would eventually represent these points but I am interested in their actual locations. I tried to replace the text in these text boxes using Extensions->Text->"Replace Text" to replace "" by "+". But after that, each text box contains two "+" symbols, which is a bit confusing.


Does someone have an idea to convert these empty text boxes to something I can work with?

Thanks in advance.

For those who have the same problem, I eventually found a solution by opening the .svg file with Notepad and replacing all the unrecognized symbols by others.

For example: Replace >< by >+< in the code:

<text
xml:space="preserve"
x="1137.3601"
y="1835.0827"
style="font-size:26.246771px;fill:#00ffff;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:center;text-anchor:middle;font-family:MicroBrightField Symbol;"
id="text3017"></text>