Comment 6 for bug 697126

> I pretty much followed the tutorial here (…)
see <http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/04/inkscape-tutorial-2-text-and-simple.html?showComment=1253617094252#c4154955661032700233> ;)

Linking as duplicate to bug #345371 to keep further discussion and tracking of the issue in one place. Please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status if you don't agree and think these are different issues which need to be tracked and fixed separately.