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> Inkscape 0.43-2.el4 installed from DAG repository.
> 
> Symptom: Inkscape crashes with error message
> ** (inkscape:10094): WARNING **: Unable to open font file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0649bt_.pfb for font Century Schoolbook L, 512, exiting
> 
> Easiest way to reproduce is by selecting Help -> About from inkscape
> although also happens with opening previous files.
> 
> When I downgrade to the previous releases (2.1.9-6.el4) of
> freetype and freetype-devel inkscape behaves fine.
> Happens on both i386 and x86_64 platforms.
> 
> cheers,
> Ronnie

Looking into this
What version of Scientific Linux 4.x are you running?
   cat /etc/redhat-release

Troy
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