Text boxes appear upside-down after PDF import
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Miklosh |
Bug Description
Platform: Windows XP SP2
Version: Various Inkscape 0.46 Dev builds - latest is Nov 1, 2007. 0.45
builds don't have PDF import.
Here's the repeatable steps to make this happen;
1. Start a fresh Inkscape session
2. Open an existing PDF using the normal open dialogue (not import)
3. Open a page using any combination of clipping, embed images and
precision settings.
4. Click on text tool and drag on page to make a text box.
5. Release mouse button and text box flips upside-down.
6. Type some text (appears upside-down).
7. Click on select tool and select text box, select flip vertically.
8. Work normally.
Notes:
a. This does not seem to happen if you use the File -> import menu option
instead.
b. If you put the flipped text on a path and then move the path vertically,
the text moves in the opposite direction. This gets really messy, so I just
took to dragging the text, not the path.
tags: |
added: importing removed: fonts import linux win32 |
Originator: YES
I've also attached the resulting svg file before using the flip tool.
Additional Notes:
c. Don't know if this happens if there is no text in the PDF.
d. This seemed to happen with PDF files from OpenOffice and also from
PDFCreator (www.pdfforge.org) that uses Ghostscript. Doesn't seem to be the
PDF file's fault.
File Added: test.svg