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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