Alex Valavanis wrote on 2010-09-17: > I'm not too familiar with how font rendering is actually performed. Can > anyone help?
Don't know how typesetting of the accented characters is done in LaTeX, but wrt to Inkscape: if a certain font does not contain the specific Unicode symbol / character, the font backend substitutes it from a different (fallback) font (if available) -> the reporter should probably first verify whether the TTF files of the mentioned fonts actually contain those Unicode glyphs. An quick way to test is to use gtk-demo, and preview the same words with 'Pickers > Fonts' (see attached screenshot with GTK+/X11 2.24.13, fontconfig 2.9.0, freetype 2.4.10, pango 1.30.1, and the cmr10 font downloaded from [1]). Fontforge can also be used to view the list of available glyphs of a font - it doesn't show any accented characters either for e.g. the TTF font cmr10. Likely the ComputerModern Unicode fonts [2] could be used as an alternative (they do include lots of accented characters). Proposing to close as 'Invalid' for Inkscape. ----- [1] <http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ttf-lyx> [2] <http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net/> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/640845 Title: accented characters of CM fonts not available to inkscape To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/640845/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
