Forum: Inkscape Cannot get condensed fonts

Posted by Daniel Carrera (Guest)
on 2010-07-18 13:31
(Received via mailing list)
Hello,

For some reason Inkscape does not show me the condensed fonts on my
system. I am running Ubuntu (Lucid) and I have some DejaVu condensed
fonts installed:

% ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/*Condensed*
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf


So I go to inkscape, select some text and click on the little "T"
button to get additional font options. There, I select DejaVu Sans and
under "Style" I see options like normal and Semi-Condensed, but I do
not see Condensed.

Does anyone know what's going on? Is it possible that DejaVu does not
actually *have* condensed fonts and all the files that say "Condensed"
are actually mislabeled and they are really only semi-condensed?

Thanks for the help.
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