fix flowed text in svg
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| Inkscape |
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| inkscape (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I ran into the problem described at http://
"If however you really need flowed text, you will have to convert it to regular (non-flowed) text by the "Convert to text" command in the Text menu. THIS COMMAND FULLY PRESERVES THE APPEARANCE AND FORMATTED OF YOUR FLOWED TEXT but makes it non-flowed and SVG 1.1-compliant." (emphasys added)
The part in uppercase is bullshit. If you chose the text and do "convert to text", the text completely changes its positioning. For example, I have a text centered to a certain area, and it moves to the left to an apparently random position.
Also, if you have decided to keep the flowed text feature, it makes NO SENSE to keep it in its current broken status which corresponds to an obsolete version of the specs until the SVG 1.2 draft becomes final. You should fix the implementation to conform to the current status of the standard.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: inkscape 0.48.4-3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jun 13 20:25:11 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (245 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: inkscape
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-24 (20 days ago)
| Teo (teo1978) wrote | #2 |
| jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote | #3 |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #4 |
How is one supposed to achieve centering text into a given area without flowed text? Even if you fix the conversion of flowed to regular text, that wouldn't be enough because if one edits the text he will need to recenter it manually. You should provide tools to achieve with regular text the same that you can achieve with flowed text if you're not going to fix the support for flowed text.