it just stays there and does not want to resize
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O/S: win7 Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819
Cannot reproduce with current Inkscape (1.0). If this is still an issue, please check here: https://inkscape.org/report.
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy
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