File talk:"The Sleeping Beauty" excerpt, C. Armstrong Gibbs.svg
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Trlkly in topic Couldn't use real text
Couldn't use real text
editI tried to use embeded text for the lyrics, but the rendering kept breaking in the SVG checker, moving the text way offscreen. So I resorted to converting it all to paths. If anyone can fix it, go right ahead. The font I used was Nimbus Roman No 9 L. — trlkly 13:45, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
- I figured it out. Finale apparently uses manual kerns in order to place its text. Unfortunately, rsvg, the SVG renderer here, doesn't like those. I had to replace them with spaces.
- I also noticed something peculiar. I got my URW+ fonts from the official location, but they aren't quite named correctly. The spaces are left out. The Wikipedia copy, on the other hand, seems to have spaces. So I had to use FontForge to edit my font name so that I could use the same font on both systems. (And FontForge is very, very buggy on Windows.) — trlkly 10:18, 14 January 2014 (UTC)