Comment 28 for bug 218502

Hi I'm an inkscape user, I was using it on XP, but I just started using it under vista. I had the same problem (the text scroll bar on the left was giving me trouble, though ctrl +shift+ t was working, but the text scroll bar is much easier). The default font was "sans" and wasn't letting me change it to any other font. Like someone said a few posts above, I download the Bitstream Vera Sans font (click on the .zip file)

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/

I installed it, and it solved my problem.