Comment 13 for bug 295564

@~suv: have you read (and understood) any of the other comments on this page? Importing text as path is one solution to the problem we're all facing. Yes, the kerning sucks, and it's good to know there are other bug reports about this, but I personally don't need to edit the imported text, and hence importing text as path is a good alternative. This is why the "importing pdf as is" option would also be solution, albeit not the solution originally proposed. I can't speak for Levi, but I assume he proposed it because he thought it would be easier to implement than importing text as path. (It is, for example, what Keynote does.)

"Better than text as path would be to have support for embedded fonts, i.e. convert the fonts embedded in the PDF or PS file to SVG fonts on import."

"Please read the summary of this bug: "import PDF text also as path". This report is _not_ about 'text as text'."

Have you even read your own comments?