Tested again on Windows XP:
- reproduced with 0.48.2.
- not reproduced with 0.48.3.1, 0.48.5 and 0.91.x rev. 13633.
@Open-Elearning - Could you please confirm you're running Inkscape 0.48.5? As far as I can tell, the latest official Inkscape packages for your Ubuntu version is inkscape 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1.
Tested again on Windows XP:
- reproduced with 0.48.2.
- not reproduced with 0.48.3.1, 0.48.5 and 0.91.x rev. 13633.
@Open-Elearning - Could you please confirm you're running Inkscape 0.48.5? As far as I can tell, the latest official Inkscape packages for your Ubuntu version is inkscape 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1.