I am exporting an Inkscape vector graphic (.SVG) to the PDF format required by the digital printers but one of the fonts used (namely Futura BdCn BT) is not formatting correctly in the exported PDF whilst everything else works fine. I have done pre-press (for too many years) albeit on Macs/MS-Coreldraw using the same techniques, but a few years ago moved over completely to Ubuntu for all my computing needs; now needing some new business cards, stumbled on this error and cannot work out why it's occurring. The design is simply text with a single QR graphic on it and that works fine, except for the Futura BdCn BT not formatting correctly and coming out more 'fat' and bold as opposed to the slim Futura BdCn BT style.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 with the 0.48 Inkscape install, but prior to next trying an Inkscape upgrade, has anyone experienced this issue and how do you overcome it? Failing that, anyone have a solution for the pre-press PDF requirement.
Thanks in advance.
I've noted the same behavior when bolding an already bold font. Appearance in Inkscape and the SVG is unchanged whether or not bold is on, but the PDF has the appearance of being bolded twice when bold is on. So, the fix is to make sure that bold is turned off for such fonts, even though it doesn't appear to make any difference within Inkscape.
I get the same behavior in 0.48.4 on Linux, as well as 0.48.5 on OS X.
Get the GIMP. I had to make a poster for the fraternity in a pdf format of all things, and I know that you can just transfer image formats through GIMP.
Sounds like an issue embedding the fonts. As this is just for printing the text doesn't need to be recognised as text in the pdf.
When you select save and choose pdf a window should appear with some options. Select the convert texts to paths option. This should hopefully just render the text exactly as you see it in inkscape into an image in the pdf.