The file 'London Bridge.svg' renders just fine in Inkscape 0.48.2 for
Mac OS X (tested on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and OS X 10.7.4), assuming the
correct fonts are installed.

Note: I first tried it with the fonts shipping with the trial version of
Scorch (6.2.0). Since these fonts install with a different name than
referenced in the SVG file (e.g. 'Opus' instead of 'Opus Std') Inkscape
only was able to use them after creating corresponding font alias rules
for fontconfig.

With the fonts installed by the trial version of 'Sibelius First'
however (which have the same font names as referenced in the SVG file),
Inkscape is able to find and use all fonts, and correctly render the SVG
file AFAICT (see attached screenshot).

On Windows, failure to render symbols from the special musical fonts is
possibly to due to lack of support for Unicode-based symbol fonts in
current stable versions:
- Bug #239631 "Musical Truetype font not listed and not available"
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/239631>
which was marked as duplicate of
- Bug #165665 "non-Unicode symbol fonts do not work on Windows"
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/165665>

hth, ~suv

On 28/06/2012 11:50, Daniel Spreadbury wrote: