Comment 3 for bug 188794

My first and all further impressions of imported text when I tried to edit imported text it gave me an impression that something was completely broken inside text field during import - this looked like old bugs with multybite characters in linux terminals (when type some text in russian, then try to delete it, the character is not deleted, but caret moves on its place then everything gets worse and comes to a mess).

The idea to import/export PDF came to me when I was searching a universal file format to exchange data between different vector drawing programs - corel draw, ai, inkscape. As far as PDF were a good candidate to this role, my first tests showed me that inkscape itself can't import pdf files correctly (and only whey my bug was marked as duplicate of this bug I found that this is not so). I am more than sure that other users with same intentions would receive the same impression and would give up using PDF as interchange format.

In may cases presise text letter position is not nessesary because in simple drawings users would just type some text and would not apply any special letter spacing settings to it, but this text can't be obviously edited either.

My suggestion is to place additional check box on the PDF import dialog like "remove manual kerns" and a short description on what it affects, so this feature won't look like a bug anymore.