I can confirm this is still the case in Inkscape 0.44-1ubuntu1 in Edgy. To reproduce this: * add a text element. * Open the fonts dialog * Select the dejavu font. * Select the book style, observe the preview. * Select the "extralight" style, observe that the preview is the same as book. * For a control, select the bold, or oblique styles, and note that the preview is different for these.
The expected behaviour is that the extralight style should be different. To demo the difference, run OpenOffice.org, and using the format->character menu, select dejavu, and then both extralight and book, and the difference will be clear. -- Inkscape does not handle some fonts styles well https://launchpad.net/bugs/36876 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
