reproducible font selection

Bug #1582690 reported by Ulrich-windl
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Inkscape
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Bug Description

Currently Inkscape allows to select font aliases (like "sans") as fonts. I've been bitten by that after upgrading the Linux OS when the alias for "sans" changed to a different font, and all my careful text layout was ruined!
Therefore I suggest not to allow selecting fonts by aliases. Also do not store the name of an alias in the SVG, but store the resolved name in the SVG. If a font cannot be found, don't silently replace the font by something else, but give the user a possibility to select a replacement font.
The font selector should clearly indicate what a font alias is. For tons of fonts some logical grouping of fonts would be nice also!

%fc-list |wc -l
3100
% fc-list |cut -d: -f2 |sort | uniq -c | wc -l
594

Tags: fonts text ui
jazzynico (jazzynico)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
tags: added: fonts text ui
removed: enhancement
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