fonts are recognized, similar issues with bold/regular not being distinguished properly. for example, I can't get Futura medium to show up, I appear to get a bold variant. I got Inkscape to recognize bold/regular Helvetica by manually editing the info for the HelveticaBold.ttf file in fontforge and ...

thanks, you are correct, it looks like an issue with the .dfont format which I spent this morning figuring out I downloaded fontforge and used it to create Helvetica.ttf, Helvetica-Bold.ttf, Helvetica-Oblique.ttf, and Helvetica-BoldOblique.ttf files from the dfont file. I then put these files in a d...

I'm getting the same error on a clean Snow Leopard install, with the 0.47pre1 r21720 version. More seriously for my uses is that numerous fonts don't work. Helvetica, Times, and some others give the following behavior: When the font is selected from the drop-down menu, the font instantly switches to...