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My system came with DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Condensed installed by default.
PROBLEM: Inkscape only shows DejaVu Sans.
DejaVu Sans Condensed supposed to be obtained by selecting DejaVu Sans and pressing Toggle bold or normal weight?
The Inkscape text toolbar only allows you to select the font family and size, and to toggle bold and italic type, but it doesn't include any way to select a specific font variant. This has actually been reported as a bug in Inkscape, and should be fixed in the next version (0.49).
In order to select a specific font variant in current versions of Inkscape, you need to open the Text and Font dialog, either via the Text menu or by pressing Shift+Ctrl+T. This will open a floating dialog window that looks like this:
Note that this dialog is currently not dockable, although that should also be fixed in Inkscape 0.49.
Go to your fonts folder and manually remove it - then download a fresh version from Font Squirrel (links below as well as some other styles from the family - well worth grabbing.)
Then try installing these (close inkscape before you install just to be safe)
DejaVu Sans Condensed font... it can be downloaded from elsewhere though.
Mar 26, 2013 at 9:46