Comment 13 for bug 1642133

I seem to be seeing this in 0.92.2 with brand new files after deleting ~/.config/inkscape and ~/.cache/inkscape

(Fedora version inkscape-0.92.2-1.fc27.x86_64).

As per one of the comments above it seems rather arbitrary. What I have noticed is that if you create a text box and use a larger font size, then select all and reduce the font size it can sometimes leave spacing that looks like the original font size. Ramping up the baseline figure to ridiculous levels also seems to overflow and bring back the desired spacing. If you then reduce it again it's sometimes back to the expected value.

From a fresh start of Inkscape:

1. Start Inkscape.
2. Create a textbox (font size defaults to 30)
3. Type a few words per line, three lines then a blank line then another few words.
4. Select all.
5. Resize text using toolbar to 12.
6. Spacing is huge similar to 30pt baseline value reporting as 1.25
7. Try reducing it with arrows or text input into toolbar - no effect.
8. Increase it to 5.0 or more, text expands.
9. Reduce it again and now goes lower than it was, including to 0 but still not correct.

Is the baseline spacing somehow stuck at a value that relates to the original font used for the textbox? Maybe I'm doing something wrong here?

This seems distinct to bug #1655483