This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at For some reason, I'm losing all text when viewing Inkscape-generated SVGs in a web browser.
I mean: When opening the SVG's in a web browser, no text is displayed at all.
I'm generating SVG's with the Inkscape of Trisquel, ie 0.48.4 r9939. I've tested with Firefox and Chrome.
How can I get the text of an SVG to display in a web browser?
I'm pasting both plain and Inkscape SVG snippets for the simplest text-containing document that I can think of...
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
width="744.09448819"
height="1052.3622047"
id="svg7407"
version="1.1"
inkscape:version="0.48.4 r9939"
sodipodi:docname="New document 25">
<defs
id="defs7409" />
<sodipodi:namedview
id="base"
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderopacity="1.0"
inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
inkscape:pageshadow="2"
inkscape:zoom="1.4"
inkscape:cx="249.09848"
inkscape:cy="520"
inkscape:document-units="px"
inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
showgrid="false"
inkscape:window-width="1278"
inkscape:window-height="730"
inkscape:window-x="0"
inkscape:window-y="0"
inkscape:window-maximized="1" />
<metadata
id="metadata7412">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
<dc:title></dc:title>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1">
<flowRoot
xml:space="preserve"
id="flowRoot7415"
style="font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Sans"><flowRegion
id="flowRegion7417"><rect
id="rect7419"
width="320"
height="247.85715"
x="45.714287"
y="398.07648" /></flowRegion><flowPara
id="flowPara7421">Hello!</flowPara></flowRoot> </g>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
version="1.2"
width="744.09448"
height="1052.3622"
id="svg7407">
<defs
id="defs7409" />
<metadata
id="metadata7412">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
<dc:title></dc:title>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<g
id="layer1">
<flowRoot
id="flowRoot7415"
xml:space="preserve"
style="font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Sans"><flowRegion
id="flowRegion7417"><rect
width="320"
height="247.85715"
x="45.714287"
y="398.07648"
id="rect7419" /></flowRegion><flowPara
id="flowPara7421">Hello!</flowPara></flowRoot> </g>
</svg>
