This isn't a problem issue, more that I'm trying to understand the reasoning.

Let's say I type a couple of words of text, perhaps for a logo, then convert to path. Regardless of whether I save in Inkscape's default SVG format, or 'Save a copy' in Plain SVG, if I open the file in a text editor, it includes style information for the original font. Example below of a word I converted from text to path:



Just curious why this info is relevant, when I feel it only increases the file size. I assumed that once the text was converted to a path, and was therefore no longer text, it would be no different from a random shape you might create with the bezier tool. Even if Inkscape retains some settings for its own use, why does exporting to Plain SVG still include the original font information. It seems quite redundant when you're not dealing with text any more.

Can anyone shed some light on the reasoning behind this?

Probably because if you got paths only of a lettering (in an svg presumably drawn by somene else) it is a challenge to identify the font used if you wanted to contnue the text in the same style. Although it would be nice if this hidden feature could be switched on/off.

Developers also thought of having a feature that would (some day) allow you to reconstruct text that had been turned into a path. The text contents (from 0.92 on) is also kept, in the aria-label attribute.

Lazur wrote:Although it would be nice if this hidden feature could be switched on/off.

There are built-in options to remove certain attributes and style properties if improper, inappropriate or non-useful - look at the details of the options in 'Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output'. The (unwanted) font style properties discussed here can be auto-removed from paths (not from groups - they are appropriate on groups because of style inheritance rules) by checking

• Inappropriate Style Properties Actions
  [ ] Print warnings
  [x] Remove style properties
• Check Attributes and Style Properties on
  [ ] Reading
  [ ] Editing
  [x] Writing

This setting will remove the font style properties from paths when saving the file. Text converted to path needs to be ungrouped first for the setting to be effective (on ungroup, each path inherits the style properties defined originally on the group itself which contains the paths for each glyph).

Thank you for the replies, everyone.

~suv, I'll have a look in Document Properties for those settings. Thank you!

z3z wrote:~suv, I'll have a look in Document Properties for those settings.

Preferences, not Document Properties.

Sorry, my mistake!

Thank you for asking this question!! I created a file for someone last month. They came to me today asking to change one word (from "mom" to "aunt") and add another name. I had forgotten what fonts I used... so I just opened my SVG in Google Chrome and clicked on "view page source." WOO HOO