Comment 10 for bug 1718524

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Hugh Warrington (x-launchpad-hughw-org) wrote (last edit ):

I can reproduce this in Inkscape 1.1.1 (3bf5ae0d25, 2021-09-20) on Windows 10.

I have attached an SVG file, plus two PDFs. The first PDF is what I get when I manually run Path->Object to Path on the text before saving the first file as PDF. The second PDF is what I get if I tick the 'Convert text to paths' dialog option when I save the first file as a PDF.

It should be apparent from reading the SVG, but I used a block of text containing two spans. The first span uses font 'Eras Bold ITC' and the second span is 'Eras Demi ITC'. I'm not sure if it's necessary to mix the fonts like this to reproduce the bug, but I find it much easier to visually pick up on the weirdness this way.

I believe this issue is related or perhaps identical to bug #1396582. The poor behaviour I see of 'Convert text to paths' is the similar as described in that other ticket, i.e. thickened text.