wxGTK builds of revision 750 are finally able to render text objects
in existing .xar files. Text rendering support is still rather basic,
but all the essential interfaces are supported, so it should be
possible to enable the text tool soon.
This is the current status of text rendering:
- Text objects are rendered and can be selected, moved,
rotated, copied, you can apply fill and outline colours,
etc., but the text itself cannot be edited until the text
tool is enabled.
- Text object formatting should work OK, so text objects are
reformatted to reflect the substituted fonts when a file is
loaded.
- Font mapping is not implemented yet, the Windows font names
as found in the file are simply passed to Pango, which is
unlikely to know any of them. As a consequence, you are
likely to see the same default font substituted for most
fonts. fontconfig (see /etc/fonts for the fontconfig
configuration files) offers system-wide font mapping
support, which is probably used.
- Applied Bold/Italic effects are supported - in contrast to
having text in a "Bold" font, which, if the font is unknown,
is not taken into account
- "Convert to editable shapes" does not do anything yet.
- No automatic kerning yet.
Find attached below a small test file with some text objects.
Martin
Attachment:
fonts.xar
Description: application/riscos