Hi, The attached patch fixes a few text-related issues in the SVG backend. The first two were suggested by Bryan Cole on the list a month and a half ago. 1. Don't emit a carriage return before and after the string inside the <text> element. This was causing a problem in some SVG viewers. 2. Use font-family and font-style rather than the font-name used in the PS backend. Now Inkscape gets the right font. 3. Don't define a stroke-width. This was making all text look bold. Regards, Jared