Inkscape

  1. Bug #668701
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 668701

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Correction to previous comment:
- (try copy&paste as text from the PDF editor)
+ (try copy&paste as text from the PDF viewer)

Attached screenshot: PDF opened in Inkscape 0.48+devel r9866 on OS X 10.5.8:
('ZapfDingbats.dfont' from osx system installation made available in Inkscape)

If Inkscape doesn't see 'Zapf Dingbats' among the installed fonts, it uses the fallback font 'Sans' for the 'dots' (which displays the glyph as regular Unicode character 'G').

(Note that dingbat fonts (or fonts with glyphs not mapped to Unicode) don't work in the Windows port of Inkscape at all, and are only partially supported on other platforms afaiu).

Possibly related reports/issues:
a) symbol fonts
Bug #165665 “non-Unicode symbol fonts do not work on Windows”

b) font substitution
Bug #168658 “font substitution is silent”
Bug #170155 “Font substitution dialog on file open” [1]
Bug #600068 “Find and change font”

c) use embedded fonts from the PDF as SVG fonts (not supported) or convert text to path on import of a PDF file (not supported).