I can re-produce this issue with many other fonts in Win7 with version 0.48. One of these fonts is "TGL 0-16".
Interestingly, the drop down menu shows this font with the name "TGL 0 -16" inserting a space between the zero and the hyphen. I found that suspicious and opened the SVG file in a text editor and checked the style attribute of the text node:
...and opened the file in Inkscape again and voilá, now the font is properly displayed in my drawing.
Unfortunately it will be reset to defaul as soon as I click or move the text object, because the manually added quotes are being removed from the svg file by Inkscape.
I can re-produce this issue with many other fonts in Win7 with version 0.48. One of these fonts is "TGL 0-16".
Interestingly, the drop down menu shows this font with the name "TGL 0 -16" inserting a space between the zero and the hyphen. I found that suspicious and opened the SVG file in a text editor and checked the style attribute of the text node:
font-family:TGL 0-16;-inkscape- font-specificat ion:TGL 0-16
Note, that the font family name is not in quotes! I manually added single quotes around the font family:
font-family:'TGL 0-16';- inkscape- font-specificat ion:'TGL 0-16'
...and opened the file in Inkscape again and voilá, now the font is properly displayed in my drawing.
Unfortunately it will be reset to defaul as soon as I click or move the text object, because the manually added quotes are being removed from the svg file by Inkscape.