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manouchk

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 313

[solved] Greek letters or symbols in inkscape

Well, I'm trying to produce a greek letter in inkscape using the font "Standard Symbols L" in inkscape and it does not work. It looks like it is a regular font and I cannot found a way to make any greek letter in inkscape.

inkscape version is 0.46-8

Here is the list of the fonts installed on my system:

pacman -Q|grep font
artwiz-fonts 1.3-3
fontcacheproto 0.1.2-1
fontconfig 2.6.0-2
fontsproto 2.0.2-1
gsfonts 8.11-4
libfontenc 1.0.4-1
libxfont 1.3.3-1
libxfontcache 1.0.4-1
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-1
xorg-font-utils 1.0.3-3
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-1
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-2
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-3

Last edited by manouchk (2009-05-23 06:24:54)

Cilyan

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From: Toulouse (FR)

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 97

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Re: [solved] Greek letters or symbols in inkscape

The best way is to use the textext package in AUR that produces LaTeX formulas into inkscape (in vectorial format, so it does not alter the quality).

Else, any wide charset font should be suitable for greek character, you can copy/paste the greek lettre from a table of characters (the problem is that I've not found any character selector with Gnome/KDE/Xfce dependecy yet.) You can copy from OpenOffice or other (yeah, that's not a real solution and I did that sucessfully for lambda but not epsilon)

Finally, you can type Ctrl+U and type the character code. you will find them in this document : http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf

manouchk

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 313

Re: [solved] Greek letters or symbols in inkscape

Ok, merci!