Text box has inconsistent behaviors

[gpk]

Binary package hint: abiword

Take a document full of text. Start a text box, beginning on the left margin. Stretch the text box across the text. At first you will see it pushing the text out of the way. However, once the text box spans from one margin to the other, the text box behaves differently.

All of a sudden, it covers up the text instead of pushing it out of the way.

The attached image shows the text (upper left), the pushing situation (small text box; lower left) and the cover-up (right side).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 13 20:01:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abiword

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I believe this is a duplicate of bug 674714, even though the behavior may have changed slightly. It is not a significant change, and is still when adding a text box, the text is not re-formatting correctly.