Hello, I've been using Inkscape for a long time and have been very happy with what it can do.

I'd like to change the font of a text object to "Bodoni MT Black". Currently when I do this, the font changes to "Bodoni MT" and the text changes to "Bold" (the "Bold" indicator on the contextual toolbar gets "pressed"). It may have something to do with the fact that "Bodoni MT Black" is a member of the Bodoni MT font family. I've tried opening the XML representation of the object and changing the style string several ways:

1. 'font-weight' to 900
2. 'font-family' to Bodoni MT Black
3. '-inkscape-font-specification' to Bodoni MT Black

None have had the desired effect. Is there another way to do this?

Romel Bismonte

P. S. I am running Inkscape version 0.48 on Windows 8.1.
I also referred to http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#FontFamilyProperty to see what kinds of changes I can make to the style of the text object.

Is Bodoni MT Black the Bold variant or style of that family? There might be a variant or style that isn't bold. Although I'm not clear what your desired effect is. Do you want it to be not bold? Or bolder?

Aside from issues with variants and families, sometimes problems with fonts in Inkscape can be traced to the font, rather than Inkscape. Sometimes fonts are made in certain ways, that Inkscape can't use, for some reason. Or sometimes they are just poorly made fonts.

If you coulf give us a link to download that font (preferably the whole family) some of us might be able to test.