Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-4 Severity: important
This only occurs for old drawings. It does not seem possible to reproduce the
problem with new drawings, so a trimmed-down old drawing is attached.
There are a number of problems, but they probably are related.
In the example drawing you see a single Chinese character. The
text box actually contains 4 characters, but the other 3 are
invisible. (They were all visible in an older version of inkscape,
with an older version of fontconfig.)
Observations:
1. Click on the character and bring up Text and Fonts. Note that the default
sample text is shown, as if there were no text in the text box. Note also
that Font is shown as "Arial" (which is false, as step 2 will show).
a. Click Text. It doesn't show anything. Text and Fonts thinks that the
text box is empty, even though it obviously isn't because you see one
character on the screen.
b. Click Fonts. Try to change the font. You can't. (You can click
different fonts and the sample text changes, but Apply is greyed out.)
2. Close inkscape and bring up a UTF-8-capable editor to edit the svg file.
Look for "Some Example Nonexistent CJK Font" (an artificial example font
name). Change it to "Kochi Gothic" or any other Japanese or Chinese font
that exists. Save the file and relaunch inkscape.
Note that you now see all 4 characters.
Select the text and bring up Text and Fonts again.
a. Click Text. You see the 4 characters. Existence or non-existence of
the *font* seem to affect inkscape's ability to judge whether any text
at all (which should be font-independent) exists or not.
b. Click Fonts. Try to change the font. You still can't.
Since this does not seem to happen in new drawings, this looks like some
kind of backward-compatibility problem.
Note about the non-existent font name: Fontconfig and/or inkscape changed
some months ago so that it returns Japanese/Korean font names (in Japanese/
Korean characters) for some CJK fonts; worse, inkscape stopped recognizing
their English font names as valid.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-ow1
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)
Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgc1c2 1:6.6-2 conservative garbage collector for
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-9 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-9 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.8.2-2 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.12.2-6 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.6.5-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-2 Shared Perl library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-4 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii dia 0.94.0-17.1 Diagram editor
ii imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.7 Image manipulation programs
ii libwmf-bin 0.2.8.3-3.1 Windows metafile conversion tools
ii perlmagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.7 A perl interface to the libMagick
ii pstoedit 3.42-3 PostScript and PDF files to editab
pn sketch <none> (no description available)
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