I am having a problem using the font "Street Plain" in Inkscape. It appears in my list but when I select it, it automatically changes to Sans and of course looks different. "Street Plain" styled text will even appear in the preview window of the font dialog box, but I soon as I close the dialog the text switches to Sans. Also, the font has no problem working in other programs. Any ideas?

bump! Any ideas?

Usually when there are font problems it's because of bad quality of fonts. Is there a place where we can download the font and test it ourselves?

Any luck figuring this out? I really need this font.

So I still need the font working. Can anybody help me out with a fix? I really really need this.

which of the 17 Street fonts are you trying to use?

I tried to download the set of fonts and both Windows and 7zip tells me the zip archive is corrupt....

ESET scan says "archive damaged". (ESET is antivirus/antispyware real-time and scanner.)

That font looks like one that you could find elsewhere, in a more stable state, and of course under a different name and made by a different author/artist. I've had good experience with http://www.myfonts.com/. I've probably downloaded 30 or 40 free fonts from them, and only a couple were unstable and couldn't be used. But I think it's not unusual to find "bad" files of fonts around on the 'net, especially free ones. I suppose if you want dependably good fonts, with accountability of distributor or author/artist, you could buy them. And especially if you're in the printing industry, I think you'd want to go ahead an buy good fonts.

Good luck