Highlighted text disappears when replacing

[Tomas]

I have imported an SVG file exported from Corel Draw.
The text field behaves strangely, when highlighting all the text in one row, and starts to replacing it by typing in a new text, the whole text box disappears. The same behaviour can be seen if the text is backspaced one character at a time. When the text is empty the container disappears entirely.

It works fine if the text was created in Inkscape though, both ways.

In v0.45.1 Inkscape sometimes crashes when doing undo to fix this, have not seen this in in the pre0.46 released on jan 23rd..

I have a sample file but have not yet found a way to include it.

[Tomas (bengtsson-tomas)]

Document that shows the described problem.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

I get several warnings (see below) when I try to open this file in Linux (Fedora Core 6), using today's SVN rev 17195. The XML tree also looks funky, with lots of quote marks in the tree browser. The W3C SVG validator also says that it is not valid SVG (see http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flaunchpadlibrarian.net%2F11605038%2Fbugg.svg&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 ), so I think this is most likely a bad input file. The behavior you describe is obviously buggy, though. Maybe once we figure out what is wrong with the file, Inkscape should just refuse to open it. FWIW, Firefox 2 renders this file with a large black rectangle.

** (inkscape:24070): WARNING **: Unimplemented style property SP_PROP_CLIP_RULE: value: evenodd

** (inkscape:24070): CRITICAL **: SPCurve* sp_curve_new_from_foreign_bpath(const NArtBpath*): assertion `new_bpath != NULL' failed

** (inkscape:24070): CRITICAL **: SPCurve* sp_curve_new_from_foreign_bpath(const NArtBpath*): assertion `new_bpath != NULL' failed

** (inkscape:24070): CRITICAL **: SPCurve* sp_curve_new_from_foreign_bpath(const NArtBpath*): assertion `new_bpath != NULL' failed

** (inkscape:24070): CRITICAL **: SPCurve* sp_curve_new_from_foreign_bpath(const NArtBpath*): assertion `new_bpath != NULL' failed

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

The file that you attached looks like it was opened in Inkscape and then re-saved. Could you attach the file as exported by Corel Draw, before it has been touched by Inkscape?

[Tomas (bengtsson-tomas)]

Yes, here it comes, directly exported from CDR. It is a few text lines only.

[mutzinet (nielsgi)]

I get the same problem of disappearing text with plots exported from grace.
Inkscape 0.46 and grace 5.1.21 on Kubuntu Hardy.
Here is a file as exported.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Underlying issue:
Bug #167904 “Incorrect handling of <text> without <tspan>”

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Repro disappearance of box, if removed all characters.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15073 (GTK3)

[mray (mrayyyy)]

Closing because migrated already to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/248.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/mray