Broken editing of text with absolute kerning
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Invalid
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Medium
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Bug Description
I am using the Ubuntu/Gutsy 0.46pre0 package and have discovered the following bug when importing PDFs: text boxes in the converted file cannot be edited properly. Even when objects are ungrouped, any attempt to edit the text boxes fails: Any new text entered is placed one letter on top of the other, and previously existing text cannot be selected (see screenshot). If a new textbox is created within the same file, however, the problem does not occur.
Thanks for working on what will be a powerful, free PDF editor!
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UPDATE: Apparently, the text can be edited once the text box is selected and "Remove manual kerns" is selected from the Text menu. But, I think this is still a bug; regular text does not behave this way.
See http:// wiki.inkscape. org/wiki/ index.php/ ReleaseNotes046 #PDF_and_ AI_import
Basically this is a wontfix. We cannot sacrifice precise text placement, without it PDF import will be meaningless because this format is specifically designed for precise layout. Editing such text is naturally not so easy as regular text, but there's a workaround.