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Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately?

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On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 16:41 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> I have a very simple file with two text objects, two circles and an 
> image and that's exactly what happened when I tried to work with it.
> The 
> circles (no stroke and no fill) were used to create a path for the
> text 
> to follow.
> 
> It took two circles because Inkscape's arcane (more likely buggy)
> method 
> of putting a text on path works very badly. It takes hair-pulling 
> sequences of flips and rotations to get the text to where it should
> be. 
> You can't do it with just one circle because the circle, once set
> for 
> the first piece of text, can't be touched for the second - you need
> a 
> second, identical, circle to be able to do the flips and rotations
> to 
> get the second piece of text right.

I have no problem doing this with one circle...

> When I resized the document, after scaling the drawing, so that the 
> drawing would fit on a single page, I couldn't re-centre it by
> selecting 
> the entire drawing and treating it as a group. I had to actually
> group 
> the drawing. When I tried to ungroup it, the text moved around.
> Since 
> the purpose of the ungroup was to replace the image with a different 
> one, repositioning the text was not an option since it would be 
> difficult to get it back to exactly the same position.
> 
> This meant that I couldn't simply replace the image with another one.
> I 
> had to cover it with a circle the same colour as the background
> (white) 
> to "erase" it.
> 
> Anyway, if you look at 
> http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text%201.
> png 
> you will see the drawing when the objects are grouped. 
> http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text-%20b
> ad%20.png 
> is the way the drawing looks after an ungroup. Note that both pieces
> of 
> text are moved left and upwards and the "West Hill" text is rotated 
> about 15 degrees counter-clockwise.

Yep, this I can reproduce, there are a couple of bug reports upstream
that seems to match and it looks like it has been fixed for the
upcoming 0.92.

As a work around you can enter the group and do the edits there,
instead of ungrouping and grouping again.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se

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why is Inkscape so bad lately? Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-07-07 20:30 +0200
  Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-07 20:40 +0200
  Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-07-07 21:20 +0200
    Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately? Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-07-07 22:50 +0200
      Re: why is Inkscape so bad lately? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-07-07 23:40 +0200

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