Hi,

I've just put together another inkscape extension, designed to replace one font with another, drawing-wide, without affecting other styling.

(Updated) More information and an up to date zip file here:

http://code.google.com/p/inkscape-repla ... loads/list

Please test this one too!

Thanks,
Craig

Thank you, this seems very useful!

I tried to download it but the link gives Page not found.

Page not found
Also, will this be different than using control f to find all instances of a font in the document and the text and font dialog to replace them all with a different font?
It's great that you're writing extensions for Inkscape! The GIMP has so many and we have - well, just you (besides the developers, of course).

druban wrote:Page not found
Also, will this be different than using control f to find all instances of a font in the document and the text and font dialog to replace them all with a different font?
It's great that you're writing extensions for Inkscape! The GIMP has so many and we have - well, just you (besides the developers, of course).

Hi both,

Sorry for the delay in replying, I've now set my forum defaults up properly (so I should get a reply to any conversation I'm in).

I've updated the extension quite a bit, and opened a google code page: http://code.google.com/p/inkscape-replace-font - just click on downloads and you'll get an up to date zip file.

This extension is quite different (and hopefully better) than the CTRL-f, then set font method, for the following reasons:

* You can replace fonts by name, not just replace regardless (though that is an option, too)
* You don't have to manually select text objects (you could miss some or include some by mistake)
* You can list all fonts in the drawing (for reference)
* When you make a change, you don't lose all other formatting (bold, italic, etc.)

However there's a similarity too,

* You can now use a manual selection along with any of the above options, if you choose (find and replace by name, replace regardless, list fonts only)

So - it's really only like the CTRL-f method if you make a selection, then choose the "replace only" tab and "work on selected items only", but even then, you get to keep your existing formatting!

Thanks,
Craig

thanks for the explanation, sounds like a good and useful extension!

Thanks for the updates to work on selections..

-Rob A>

Certainly a time saver, especially if like me you end up with a tons of text objects in splatted across a drawing. Thanks.

Hi. Thanks for this useful extension. I'm working on mathematical texts (generated with pdflatex), adding "editorial design".
There is a problem in Inkscape: I have the font cmsy10 (lowercase) and I can use it in Inkscape, but when I open each PDF, Inkscape read CMSY10 (uppercase) as the font does not exist for Inkscape, many symbols are lost. Why confuse the font's names?.
Do you know if there is any configuration file where I can change font sustitution, for example change CMSY10 ->cmsy10, before open the PDF? (Iḿ working on Ubuntu 10.10, 64 bits).

Thanks a lot for your time.

@ wmora2 If you are really having trouble and desperate to do this, you can tell it to convert text to paths, though this will increase the complexity and size of the output file quite a lot, but it bypasses any font issues.

Wow, that works very nicely.
Thanks so much !!!

This is great stuff! Thank you!

But I was wondering if you could make a drop down menu of fonts in the Find & Replace Fonts form instead of an input field. That way we wouldn't have to manually insert the font names and would make the process more convenient.

Just a suggestion. Cheers!

Just to add my thanks!

Oh alright, and one suggestion: as well as font-family, could you add font-size as well?

I wanted to thank you for creating this extension. It works like a charm!!

hopefully this will help others solve the problem I was having (hopefully making it visible to search engine web-scrubbers):

if you're getting a missing font in inkscape and you want to replace it, this is the tool for you. For example, you can replace Helvetica with Nimbus Sans L very easily or replace Palatino with Book Antiqua.