Comment 2 for bug 1273003

> I am trying to check out different fonts on a line of text and they
> are not changing - reverting instead to 'sans'.

Please provide more details about the fonts you tried to apply but which were reverted to 'Sans' (e.g. font name as displayed in Inkscape, font file name, etc.) - are these fonts installed on the system (bitmap fonts for example don't work in Inkscape), or fonts you installed yourself?