Font substituted with same font

[pRototype]

Inkscape 0.48+devel r12217
Windows XP sp3

Whenever I opens a specific svg file, I receive the following warning:
Font 'Bitstream Vera Serif' substituted with 'Bitstream Vera Serif'

The file is created with same version of Inkscape.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

The warnings should be reliable.

Reproduced with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 and 0.91+devel r14444 on OS X 10.7.5, with dialog for font substitution warnings turned on.

[Rick Uhlenkott (rduhlenkott)]

Same with me, except the font is StageCoach. Originally it replaced StageCoach with something else, even though StageCoach was installed and the Windows font viewer showed it good. I reinstalled StageCoach and now the replacement is with StageCoach.

Also substitutes Bitstream Vera Sans Bold with Bitstream Vera Sans, and again the Bold version is installed and shows good in the font viewer.

.48 does not do this. All drawings were originally created in .48 or earlier.

OS is Win 7.

[carmen fierro (cfierrob)]

My problem *CAN* be related.
I am running Inkscape .92 under Windows7 x64
- File originally created yesterday with font 'sans-serif'; some of the text objects contain a couple of characters in italics; on opening I used to receive the warning 'the font sans-serif italic has been substituted with Verdana...' As I haven't been able to determine which of the Windows fonts Inkscape takes for sans-serif, it's quite possible that it should lack italics.
- Then, text changed throughout to Corbel--which HAS italics!
 * on making the change, the italized letters reverted to normal--had to change by hand again;
 * on opening I GET AGAIN THE WARNING 'the font corbel italic has been substituted with Verdana...'--ONLY NOW I CAN SEE IT'S NOT TRUE! The font verdana on my system LACKS TRUE ITALICS--the font file verdanai.ttf provdes only an oblique version of verdana, WHILE MY DRAWING SHOWS TRUE ITALICS, and they surely look like corbeli.ttf.
- I can add these data, NOT KNOWING WHETHER THEY ARE RELEVANT:
 * my Windows system (OEM) came localized for spanish;
 * I have installed the english version of Inkscape (without translations)
 * my font manager shows in the properties of verdanai.ttf a mark for language-->spanish, while on those for corbeli.ttf-->english (?? both fonts have the complete latin alphabet + extensions, besides other unicode subsets).
Athough in this case the problem seems quite trivial, I have seen a file (coming from a linux user) with a mask of text clones messed up by a font substition when I tried to edit it.
Thanks.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug.

As part of migration of bugs to Gitlab, I'm closing the issue here. The issue can still be tracked at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/3150 .

I have left out migrating the issue mentioned in comment #4 since it doesn't sound like the same issue and its hard to really tell what's happening without an example file. (If you still experience this, could you please open an issue in inkscape.org/report ?)