Inkscape

text tool: first two letters inverted

Bug #177178 reported by SoWhat
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Inkscape
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inkscape (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

running inkscape 0.45.1 on Ubuntu Gutsy

on some files, when I type in a new text box, the first two letters are inverted (e.g. "bacd", or even "bcda" sometimes, instead of "abcd")

steps to reproduce:
well, it's quite strange, since I seem not to be able to always reproduce it..anyway it seems to be related with projects with big imported bitmaps and text-on-path. Maybe some memory issue?
I have been able to reproduce it only opening an already-saved file.

step 1: click on "open recent" and open a file containg some images and text-on-path

step 2: click on the text tool icon on the left toolbar

step 3: click anywhere and type very quickly (no, I'm not making typos :) , just try simply "ab".

This is what I get typing an "abababab..." sequence: "baababababa". see the first two letters?

sorry I can't find the exact issue. hope someone can reproduce it and confirm

See original description
Tags: text
SoWhat (pantofolaio-katamail-merged)
description: updated
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Luca Bruno (lucab) wrote :

I've tried in many ways to reproduce it, even with large documents/imported photos, but I can't encounter it. Note that I'm on Debian Sid, so the environment should be quite similar. Can you please try if you can reproduce it with a recent SVN build?

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prkos (prkos) wrote :

I created a file with 4 .jpg images (not too big, ~600px) and 2 text on paths objects and opened it from Recent menu option.

I was able to reproduce it on Inkscape 0.45.1 on fedora 7 but it doesn't happen all the time and I haven't been able to get it to appear if I type slowly. Sometimes it happens in 9 out of 10 tries, then I close and reopen Inkscape and it doesn't show or shows only once in 15 tries...

I also tested on dev build on WinXP but no problems there.

Could you check this on a development version, maybe the problem has been fixed by now? (I can't get dev versions work on fedora)

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vonHalenbach (lustik) wrote :

Thank you prkos for your feedback. I have set the status to confirmed.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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SoWhat (pantofolaio) wrote :

prkos: yes, it seems to occur only when you don't give letters time to be displayed, i.e. quick typing with much used memory.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

We've just released 0.46, which has packages available for Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy (see http://inkscape.org news from today for notes about the ppa). Can you please test and see if this is still an issue?

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Incomplete
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wolfger (wolfger) wrote :

8 months with no response. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in inkscape:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
jazzynico (jazzynico)
tags: added: text
Luca Bruno (lucab)
Changed in inkscape:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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