Text not displaying

[pnelnik]

I'm using Inkscape 0.48 on ubuntu 12.04.
When I add a text box, I find that it looks fine in Inkscape,
but when I view the image in either firefox or chrome,
the text is not visible.

Also when I open the image using gThumb Image Viewer,
I see large back rectangle near where the text should be.

The entire contents of my sgv file are below:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->

<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   width="744.09448819"
   height="1052.3622047"
   id="svg2"
   version="1.1"
   inkscape:version="0.48.3.1 r9886"
   sodipodi:docname="New document 1">
  <defs
     id="defs4" />
  <sodipodi:namedview
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="0.35"
     inkscape:cx="375"
     inkscape:cy="520"
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
     showgrid="false"
     inkscape:window-width="1195"
     inkscape:window-height="687"
     inkscape:window-x="65"
     inkscape:window-y="24"
     inkscape:window-maximized="0" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata7">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
        <dc:title></dc:title>
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g
     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
     id="layer1">
    <flowRoot
       xml:space="preserve"
       id="flowRoot2985"
       style="font-size:80px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Sans"><flowRegion
         id="flowRegion2987"><rect
           id="rect2989"
           width="557.14288"
           height="405.71429"
           x="57.142857"
           y="83.790756" /></flowRegion><flowPara
         id="flowPara2993">Hello</flowPara><flowPara
         id="flowPara2997">World</flowPara></flowRoot> </g>
</svg>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Known issue, already tracked in
Bug #167335 "flowed text has no SVG 1.1-compliant fallback”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167335>

See also:
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_about_flowed_text.3F>
and
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Flow>
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Regular>

(Hint: don't use flowed text in Inkscape unless really needed - i.e. click once, don't drag, with the text tool to create a new text object. Else convert the flowed text to regular text in a copy intended to be viewed externally or published as SVG file).