Kerning is adjusted incorrectly

[Thomas Levine]

I make two adjustments to kerning. First, I kern to the left expecting the entire selection to be translated one unit left. Something else happens. Second, I kern one letter down, expecting that letter to be kerned one unit down. That letter isn't the only one kerned down.

[prkos (prkos)]

Can you please clarify in more detail about what steps you do, maybe attach a screenshot of the wrong result.

You should get different results when the cursor blinks between 2 letters and when you actually select a letter or more of them.

When I select one letter (you will know it's selected when you see the colors are inverted) and try to kern it only that letter moves, the rest stay in place.

[Thomas Levine (thomas-levine)]

I don't remember it too well, and I may not have access to Inkscape for a
while as I just got home from school, but I'll look at it in a few weeks and
try to get a screenshot, and I'll try in the meantime to remember it better.

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:53 PM, prkos <email address hidden> wrote:

> Can you please clarify in more detail about what steps you do, maybe
> attach a screenshot of the wrong result.
>
> You should get different results when the cursor blinks between 2
> letters and when you actually select a letter or more of them.
>
> When I select one letter (you will know it's selected when you see the
> colors are inverted) and try to kern it only that letter moves, the rest
> stay in place.
>
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Kerning is adjusted incorrectly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247981
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> of the bug.
>

[ScislaC (scislac)]

I cannot reproduce this with either Inkscape 0.47 or current BZR.

I am closing this as invalid since I can't reproduce and also because it was marked for expiration (due to being incomplete) just shy of a year ago. If you can still reproduce this in inkscape 0.47 or feel that this was closed in error, please feel free to reopen it.

[Thomas Levine (thomas-levine)]

I looked at it again. Kerning works fine on most of the text there, but it acts strangely when I try to kern anything in the word "Serious"

[Thomas Levine (thomas-levine)]

And I'm using 0.47

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Aha! That I can reproduce... vertical kerning anywhere in "Serious" did trigger the strange shifting.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

So are we supposed to see strangeness after selecting one letter and doing vertical shift on it? Because I am simply seeing the one letter go up or down.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Thomas Levine (thomas-levine)]

I have managed to reproduced the second of my issues on NixOS, Inkscape 0.91.

If I select any letter in the word "serious" and kern vertically, the entire word "serious" loses much of its bumpiness. Results are attached.

[Thomas Levine (thomas-levine)]

Oops, letters other than the selected letter are affected, but the "entire word" does not lose its bumpiness.