FYI, the SVG renders just fine on the Win32 build of 0.45.1 (XP SP2).
greg.fenton
Since performing a recent upgrade on Gentoo (which included updating a
LOT of core libraries, as well as upgrading Inkscape from 0.43 to
0.45.1), I've had problems with fonts when importing SVG files.
An example of the output is:
http://www.msl.ri.cmu.edu/~gch/2007/inkscape-problem/