Node is not displayed

[mklaeger]

Inksacpe0.91

In the attached svg-file the text in
svg3920->layer1->flowRoot3071->flowPara3077 (saying "20-0S1")
is not displayed.
If I change the value of the property line-height of this node from default (normal) to e.g. 100% or 10px the text is displayed correctly.
Though oher nodes are still displayed when I change their line-height properties to default.
In previous versions of Inkskape the file is displayed correctly.
Thank you in advance.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.91 and trunk rev. 14666.

With 0.48, the text shows correctly with a line-height value of 1.25.
With 0.91, I need to lower the value to 1.13 to show the text.

To be confirmed. 0.91 introduced many text related changes and it could well be a wanted behavior.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

AFAIU this issue is limited to Windows builds, and likely related to slightly different font metrics returned by different font backends (which had been switched for pango (?) in Windows builds of Inkscape >= 0.91):

On OS X 10.7.5, the font used by the flowed text object in question ('Arial Unicode MS') is installed as system font. None of the tested Inkscape versions (0.47, 0.48.5, 0.91, 0.91+devel r14668) displays the text content of the flowed text object unless the height of the text frame of the flowed text objects is increased.

<off-topic>In general, there is no real need to use flowed text for short text content or text content with fixed line breaks (as in the test case provided by the reporter) - regular text (which would not have exposed the issue) would seem sufficient for the task at hand. The missing indicator of the truncated text content is tracked in several earlier reports (all variations of the same lack of visual indicators to expose the text frame of fully truncated flowed text objects to users).</off-topic>