Comment 6 for bug 247136

I am able to replicate this with karmic alpha 4 using the steps in the description. The empty text boxes appear as black rectangles

$ apt-cache policy inkscape
inkscape:
  Installed: 0.47~pre1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.47~pre1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.47~pre1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status