SVG generation bugs

There is some strange behaviour for generating SVG images by Equation Editor. Screenshot:

That certainly is strange behaviour.

What browser and OS are you using? The issue appears not to be the creation of the SVG file, but how your computer translates that. SVG are in many senses readable file, and the treatment of characters and their precise scaling is open to a little interpretation from the target computer. We can effectively trace out the letters and produce a image constructed of lines and curves, but this leads to a very large file, which broadly defeats the purpose of SVG.

If you are on a PC, you might find the EMF format more appropriate.

Thanks for report this though, and we'll dig into the causes further once we know the machine you have.

The bugs like that appear in Ubuntu 12.04 and Firefox 14.0.1, although the screenshot is made on Debian Lenny.