Hi all,

New forum member here, been using Inkscape about a year.

Tonight I'm seeing some really strange behavior with text.  I'm building a table for an engineering wall chart, adding fraction to decimal values in a table format using guides to align things.  Some of the decimal values go out six digits, and a few of those combinations cause the text box to suddenly expand to 3-4X its width and space out the trailing characters.

So far, it's only when I type a 6 (and sometimes an 8) in the third digit position.  If I replace that character with another number, such as 4 in the screenshot below, it behaves like it should.

Any ideas what's happening?

Thanks, Tom
Inkscape Version 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)

Hi Tom

can you post your svg ?

Thanks

Imppao

Here's the .svg file with everything but the decimal conversion table removed.  The blue highlighted entries are the ones jumping around when the correct decimal value is entered.

Example:  19/64" should be 0.296875".  The text jumps as soon as you enter the third digit as a 6.  Entering another number such as 4 does not cause the problem.

Thanks for taking a look!

Tom

Hi Tom,
i think in first, you must initialize inkscape. So you must delete inkscape preferences.xml
You can find this file, if you press (Ctrl+Shit+P), you open inkscape preferences > system > (system info) user preferences
Perhaps this solution will resolve your problem :)
Bye
Imppao

Imppao,

I deleted the .xml file as you suggested and restarted Inkscape.  No change in the text jumping behavior. :(

Hi Tom,
what is your inkscape version ?
are you testing with another inkscape version ?
 

I'm using Inkscape Version 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11).

If there's a later version, I have not installed it.

ok Tom
i think is a good idea to install and test inkscape 0.92.4
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.4/

Imppao,

I have deleted 0.92.3 and installed 0.92.4.  Unfortunately, no change to the jumping text behavior.

I did, however, verify that the issue seems to be related to the font I chose for the number values called Baskerville Bold.  I've had this font for some time and don't recall now where it came from--I normally buy from MyFonts.com but don't see a record for this one.  I like the font for this project but if I can't figure out the formatting issue I will most likely find a similar font rather than converting the text to paths and placing individual numbers.

Best regards,

Tom

Welcome to the forum!

I just downloaded something called Baskerville Bold (from fontsgeek), but it doesn't show up in Inkscape.  Another oddity, when I open your file, it identifies the font as Baskerville Bold Thin.  And it does look very thin, and not like in your screenshot.  So I have not been able to get the right font for testing  However, my theory was the font was the problem.

Hhmm....  I seem to also have a regular Baskerville font, without the bold (from Windows 7).  And if I change your font to that, it looks bold!  All very strange!  But anyway, when I do that, the 6 fits into the 19/64 field just fine.

Hi
so the problem is solved :)
Bye and happy new year

Thanks so much for the help all! I'm going to call this one closed to poor quality font choice and move on.