Ok, my excuses, my suggestion was appearently not right... :D
But, I think there IS a rule about which fonts are installed in Linux and which aren't, that's why I made the mistake in the first place. There is something called something like "Windows core fonts", or "windows web package" that once used to be freely available from the MS site. This package has Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Georgia and Trebuchet. Although it still might be distributed in its original form (as a package), the fonts are officialy not allowed to be distributed in any other form, f.e. in a Linux distribution. So, once you installed Linux you are perfectly able of copy-ing the TTF's into Linux from Windows, but they're not installed by default by any law-fearing suplier. I might be slighlty of the point with the technicalities or the naming, but it _does_ boil down to something like this...
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system, vertical text goes fine.
Usually when all the characters of a text are drawn in the same place that is because the program (doesn't matter if it's Inkscape or something else) can not determine each character's width. That's mostly because the font is not installed correctly (this includes the case when the font file itself is broken).
Vertical text rendering fine doesn't mean anything because the program doesn't need to know the width of the character in this case.
As for why you don't have the font, I don't know. My Ubuntu system has it. I don't think there's a rule about which fonts should be included in a Linux distro. Probably some simply are and some are not. Might depend on the distro, or the version, or even which desktop is used (I use Gnome). Maybe someone else more versed in Linux standardization efforts can shed more light on this.
In any case if you want to make sure you can display an SVG correctly on another system than the one it was created with, install the font yourself or convert all your text to curves (in which case you will not be able to change it with the text tool anymore).
HTH, Elfi
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