Comment 5 for bug 188794

@#2:
Well, obviously entering new text isn't already precisely placed, so newly entered letters should appear normally and not on top of each other. I can live with old text staying in place until absolute kerning is removed, but it makes no sense to put new text on (inherited) absolute positions which would in almost all cases be wrong anyway.

I have a pdf where several labels, scattered wildly around the place, are actually the same text box. When moving in text at one position and the cursor goes to the next area the cursor sometimes jumps just off-screen, and sometimes text jumps to a completely different screen position. The best way to make changes to this seems to be deleting the characters of a label and create a new text box at that place, but that can get annoying with all the cursor jumps. I'd rather overwrite the labels in the existing box. Obviously removing ALL absolute positioning from that text box wouldn't be a good idea, so I'd appreciate if it would be removed just for the new text I'm entering, or for just the segment I'm currently in.

Example pdf: http://www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/universitaet/lageplan/uniplan_a3.pdf - try editing the building labels.

Until this is fixed, this information should be easier to find.