Comment 4 for bug 219709

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Barry (barry-mackichan) wrote :

I'd like to add: please, please fix this bug in version .47. We are trying to create mathematical labels for figures by running pdfTeX and converting the results to SVG. The various results I've gotten include:
  1. all fonts converted to the default -- with the file run through pdfTeX. The PDF file includes subsets of the various Computer Modern fonts, which are Type 1 and probably not installed as system fonts (Windows XP).
  2. by running XeLaTeX, I can make the non-math fonts come from an Open Type font. These characters come through, but the characters in the math (Computer Modern) do not.
  3. the solution seemed to be to make sure all the characters came from installed Open Type fonts, so I compiled with XeLaTeX using the unicode-math package. The resulting PDF file contains only two fonts -- one for ordinary text and one for math. This file ought to import, but it crashes Inkscape.

I will download gdb and run a stack trace if you think that will help at this point.

I am attaching the PDF file and the two fonts referenced by it.