SVG text to paths

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device – there is no server that could see it. Once the page has loaded, the tool even works offline.

Because a font is not part of an SVG file – only its name is. Open the file on a machine without that font and the text is drawn in something else, or vanishes. Converting to outlines makes the letters into shapes, so the file looks the same everywhere. Print shops, cutting plotters and laser engravers usually require it.

Only if you want the exact shapes. Add the font the drawing uses (TTF, OTF or WOFF) alongside the SVG and every letter is traced from it. Without one we use Liberation Sans, which has the same letter widths as Arial and Helvetica, so the layout holds even though the shapes differ slightly. Either way you are told which fonts were substituted.

No, and that is the trade-off. Once letters are outlines they are shapes, not words: no spell-check, no retyping, no font change. Keep your original file – convert a copy for handing off.

Text inside a tspan is folded into its parent line, which is right for styling spans on a single line. Multi-line layouts where each tspan carries its own position are not repositioned individually, so check the result before sending it to print.