ubuntu condensed bold font not shown correctly inside inkscape

[Darko Veberic]

ubuntu condensed font with the bold weight is not rendered properly inside inkscape, as can be seen from the attachments. in fact, inkscape shows the normal weight font instead. the wrong font also appears when exported to bitmap or when converted to paths. on the other hand, save as pdf produces a correct font, and viewing the inkscape svg file with, say, geeque, also shows the correct font.

this might be relevant to other fonts also, but i did not check.

while this bug report is filed from ubuntu 13.04, the same thing is observed on a fully updated 13.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: inkscape 0.48.4-0.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-35.50-generic 3.8.13.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 16 13:18:17 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-27 (264 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

From testing in trunk, you cannot select the Bold style for the Condensed face from the UI. If you have the Text & Font dialog open though and manually type Bold into the Style widget on the Text Tool Controls Bar it will show correctly in the T&F preview widget but not on canvas.

[David Millar (davmillar)]

I'm still able to reproduce this in 0.92 on Fedora 25. I had some text in an SVG that was rendered as Normal in Inkscape, but was set to Bold in the UI. The PDF export showed the 'faux bold' effect since my system does not have the proper bold version of the font. Additionally, when clicking the style dropdown in the UI, the only available option was 'Normal' even though the initial setting was 'Bold'.