That way Inkscape sees two different font families and things are not messed up.Ī file named 'nf' (see attachment and code box below) placed in the etc/fonts/conf.d folder has the desired effect.I am converting svg image that has different text using different fonts using this command to png (other transformations are printer requirements so they have to be there):

Possible solution:Īdd a configuration file that adds a rule for fontconfig such that when scanning font files if the list of font families contains 'Candara Light' then clear the font family list and replace it just with 'Candara Light'. What should have happened?Īll variants of the Candara font family should be available in the user interface and the layout of old SVGs should not be affected by the appearance of the 'light' Candara variant. Presumably fontconfig messed up the Candara font family.

notice that the 'light' variant of Candara is used to render the text (where the standard variant should be used).

on a system that has the 'light' Candara font installed open a document that was created on a system that had no 'light' variant of Candara (for example Windows 10 before 1809) containing texts that used standard Candara font face.

there will be only four styles available in the font style combo (or in the font style table on the text properties pane) where there should be six (light, standard, bold, plus italic variants).

If the 'light' variant of the Candara font family is present ('Candaral.ttf' and 'Candarali.ttf' these were added with version 1809 of Windows 10) then the standard variant (contained in 'Candara.ttf' and 'Candarai.ttf') becomes inaccessible in the Inkscape user interface and SVGs using standard Candara for texts that were created before the 'light' variant appeared are rendered with the wrong font face ('light' instead of standard).

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