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Saving as eps/pdf italic Latin Modern Math

Asked by Jérôme Duriez

Hello,

I'm facing troubles saving, as eps or pdf, inkscape drawings with italic Latin Modern Math characters. In the resulting eps or pdf files, these characters are not in italic...

To check it, just type a beta character (ctrl+U + 03B2), or simply "d" in a new Inkscape document, and save it as eps or pdf. The output is identical whether the character is italic or not in the svg...

Exporting (as png, thus) works, but I would need eps image files (for LaTeX documents).

Thanks,

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Jérôme,

it seems there is no italic version of Latin Modern Math - at least not in the Ubuntu package (texlive-fonts-recommended).

When I install the font, and then open Inkscape, it only shows a single font variant for this font: regular.

Are you still using Inkscape 0.48 or do you use 0.91?

In 0.91, fake italics have been removed.
In earlier versions, non-existant italics were always faked, without informing the user about the faking (by just slanting the letters).

You can still get them in 0.91 by explicitly typing 'italic' into the font style field, but that is not recommended.

These faked italics are not compatible with the pdf format, it seems.

So, to solve your problem:

1. Use Inkscape 0.91 to be able to see if the font has an italic font style.
2. And use a font that actually has an italic style.

or

Convert the text to paths in the pdf saving dialog.

Kind regards,
 Maren

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Jérôme Duriez (jduriez) said : 		#2

Thank you very much for your answer, I had no idea that italics were faked (I'm using Inkscape 0.48).

Should your suggestion converting text to paths (during pdf saving) apply to faked italics with Inkscape 0.48 ? I just tried it, without success...

Thanks !

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Best Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#3

Right - doesn't work using the options in the pdf export dialog - meh :/ (tested with 0.91, btw.)

You can, however, convert all texts to paths *before* you export... (Path -> Object to path)

Be sure to keep an editable copy of the document as a backup, or to undo that change after saving a copy as pdf - else your texts won't be editable in Inkscape again.

Kind regards,
 Maren

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Jérôme Duriez (jduriez) said : 		#4

Thanks Hachmann, that solved my question.

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Jérôme Duriez (jduriez) said : 		#5

Thank you !