Can this be done, *without* having to change each font item (of which there are about a million) individually? i.e.

I'd like to know how to do this anyway, as it is clearly the safe solution for future developments. When I open a sample file using the full Inkscape GUI on each machine, the fonts appear similarly inconsistent, though they all show up as 'Sans'.ĭoes Inkscape use a default font if no font face is specified? Is this a system TTF font? A built-in font? Could this have been changed in two of these machines? Do I need to 'remind' my various copies of Inkscape what that is? (it seems unlikely as I have copied a portable installation of Inkscape to all the machines, so they should all be the same).įailing that - can I specify a default font in an SVG document? I don't think I can go back and specify the font-face for each text item, but I could probably add a default font definition at the top of each SVG page. I tried deleting Bitstream (ttf) from D & E, but I get similar results (D & E both appear to have Microsoft Sans). Looking around I think I found that the default (for SVG? Inkscape?) font is Bitstream Sans Vera, but I don't think that was installed on A and it was falling back to Microsoft Sans, so in fact I had been using a fallback when developing my code, and it was fine. B & C use one font which is the same as A, while D & E use another). However, now that I am using different machines to render the SVG files I get problems - machines B and C give me the results I expected, but the text on the files rendered by machines D and E looks different (though the same as each other - i.e.

There are hundreds of text items on each page, but I have not specified the font face for any of them, as the font face which appeared when I was developing the SVG-generating code (on machine 'A') seemed good and I assumed this was a default built-in font.

These sit in a folder, and I have several machines which look at that folder through my network, pick an SVG file and render it into a PNG using Inkscape at the command line. I have written Perl code to generate several thousand SVG files which form an animation. SUMMARY: How do I make Inkscape command-line render use the desired font? What is the most efficient way to specify how text should be rendered?

Inkscape font rendering