svg image format import bug

users
#1

Readers,

A bug has been reported about the failure of LO to display text
created with an svg image:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32248

Can anyone please confirm this occurs in the latest "stable" version
of LO writer?

#2

Confirmed on 4.1 and 4.2 branch. Apparently this doesn't happen with all svg
files. And inserting an svg with text within a document isn't a problem
either.

According to Comment #13 from Dec 2013 this problem no longer occurs in
Apache OpenOffice so it is probably an easy task to migrate to LO the code
that fixes it...

It just requires finding someone with the knowledge and the interest in
doing that...

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
I've had trouble in other programs with words in Svgs i've made in
Inkscape but haven't really explored it in LibreOffice for ages.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

To clarify, the scenario is creating an svg image and adding a text
node _within_ that image file; the vector lines are successfully
visible when imported in Writer, but the text within the image is
invisible. Any existing text in the Writer document remains unchanged
after image import.