First try testing this on a brand-new file, using the default fonts and default everything else, to ensure there's not something else in your SVG that's confusing Inkscape. This appears to be an issue with your particular file or your particular system.

Linux Mint 17.2 (Yes, I should have it updated at some point.).

I am also not a professional font designer, and I apologise if any answer(s) will involve a level of expertise in that field that I might not be able to grasp. While the reason for my problem might be staring me right in the face in that quote, I don't know enough about the subject matter to tell. User fonts (this is a future goal of Inkscape but will require

Way to do this is to use WOFF but Inkscape has no support for using Used in content creation is used for rendering. Hard to know what OpenType tables are available in which fonts.Ĭorrect display of alternative glyphs requires that the same font as One must use a trunk build of Inkscape linked with the latest unstableįont feature support in fonts is usually minimal and often buggy. The Tavmjong Bah article has the following addendums: The font used is Linux Biolinum, which I downloaded to test my own Inkscape with.Īnother article, written in 2017 September 22, by David Asabina, shows a single letter's glyph being changed live in Inkscape's canvas, through the Feature Settings field: Stylistic Variants in Inkscape Possible causes: The article shows a working in-browser example, in both PNG and live SVG, of font features supported by SVG, with one feature being Small Capitals. Research:Īn article by Inkscape developer Tavmjong Bah, written in 2015, June 23: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.īut I'd like to preview the text in small capitals inside Inkscape itself. I know the two common ways of doing this for SVG displayed in browsers: If I make a text object in Inkscape, and set its variant capitals to 'Small' or 'All Small', then apply those settings, I don't see any changes on Inkscape's canvas.īut when I save the SVG and open it in a browser, such as Firefox or Chromium, I do see the correct changes.

Is this possible in Inkscape 0.92? Or planned for future releases? Preferably using the font's own small capitals, if available. I want to type text in Inkscape, and see lowercase letters displayed instantly as small capitals on the canvas.

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