Bug 76162 – Font selection fails when including external SVG

Bug 76162 - Font selection fails when including external SVG


Summary:	Font selection fails when including external SVG

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Product:	WebKit
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	SVG
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Platform:	Macintosh Intel OS X 10.7

Importance:	P2 Normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

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Reported:	2012-01-12 02:58 PST by pom
Modified:	2015-05-15 13:09 PDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:	68090 6487

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Left is included SVG, right is inline SVG. Font selection fails in included SVG (472 bytes, text/html) 2012-01-12 02:58 PST, pom	no flags	Details
The included SVG file (identical to the inline content), works as expected when loaded directly (206 bytes, image/svg+xml) 2012-01-12 02:59 PST, pom	no flags	Details
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Description pom 2012-01-12 02:58:54 PST

Created attachment 122199 [details]
Left is included SVG, right is inline SVG. Font selection fails in included SVG

When including an external SVG file (e.g. with the SVG <image> tag or the HTML <img> tag), font selection fails for the <text> elements with a "font-family" attribute in the included file. Attached are two files: bug_image_font.html is an HTML that shows two SVG images, one included from the file image.svg and the other inline. Both are identical, but in the included case (left), the sans-serif text is rendered with the default, serif font (at least on my machine.) The inline example (or the included SVG file loaded directly) shows the right fonts.

Comment 1 pom 2012-01-12 02:59:40 PST

Created attachment 122200 [details]
The included SVG file (identical to the inline content), works as expected when loaded directly

Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2012-01-12 10:13:42 PST

See also: bug 68090.

Comment 3 Rob Buis 2012-06-10 13:12:33 PDT

This bug is probably invalid, Opera and FF do not support this either. Furthermore, having svg embedded inline in a html document is the workaround anyway. If I get svg-as-image correctly, it is just another image format.

Comment 4 pierreetienne.meunier 2012-07-05 14:54:42 PDT

Firefox does not support svg fonts. In order to be an image format, "svg-as-image" should not change when embedded in an html page. This is not the case with any other format : a jpeg looks the same when seen alone in a browser, or in an html page.