Inkscape 0.91 on Windows uses DejaVu fonts as default serif and sans-serif

[Piotr Jurkiewicz]

Inkscape 0.48 on Windows was using Arial and Times New Roman as default serif and sans-serif fonts respectively.

I noticed that it has changed and Inkscape 0.91 is using DejaVu fonts as default serif and sans-serif fonts.

This is a serious problem, because DejaVu fonts have different metrics than Arial/Helvetica and Times fonts, which are used on most platforms as default serif and sans-serif fonts. So this change literally breaks things.

I have not found any official information about the change, so I assume that it is a bug. Furthermore, I do not see any option in preferences to change default fonts.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related earlier reports:
* Bug #1435077: Same text is rendered in 0.91 and in 0.48 in different way
* Bug #1431619: font defaults to "Sans" and bold
* Bug #1422128: Sans font not available in .91 from .48

[ AFAIU introduced with the switch for Windows builds to the fontconfig instead of the native win32 backend for pango in r10742. See comments 4-5 in bug #1422128 how fontconfig configuration files could be adapted to use platform-specific fonts for generic font names and fallbacks --> packaging issue on Windows (unless r10742 is reverted [1]) and OS X. ]

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[1] Reverting r10742 apparently isn't as "easy" as one would have hoped, see also this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/37630/focus=45712