Thanks for the tip guys.  I managed to find a work around for this.  First I would use the missing fonts in OpenOffice Draw, convert the text to curves.  Then export them to SVG.  Importing them to Inkscape again. 
 
Regards,
Don
 


> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:26:02 -0400
> From: buliabyak@...155...
> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] missing wingdings font
>
> It is a known limitation mentioned in our release notes: symbol fonts
> without a Unicode map do not work. It's actually a limitation of Pango
> library. Thanks Chris for the detailed explanation of the reasons
> behind this :)
>
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> bulia byak
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