Comment 14 for bug 295564

Possibly I should have answered Levi's other comment in in Bug #219709 “fonts changed on pdf import” (where he mentions this one as related) and not here: these are different aspects of the same, well known problem with keeping appearance and/or editable text when importing PDF/PS/EPS files.

Converting text to path (as requested here) is one option (though it makes text uneditable) and (as workaround) can be achieved with external tools until it is implemented in Inkscape's internal PDF import routines (based on the poppler library). An interim solution could be to add the conversion (gs with '-dNOCACHE') as option to the PDF/PS/EPS import extensions (which would add an additional dialog window before the current one with the preview).

Other options maintaining text as text (improved text editing of abs. kerned text, better and configurable font substitution; conversion of the embedded fonts to SVG fonts) are handled in separate reports and have different requirements or dependencies.