anyone else get this? Let's say you type some characters you didn't intend to..hit Undo, yet those characters are still there?

Control-Kypd-5 shows their not there, but when you go back to Normal, they are?

what causes this?

lb

linebender wrote:Let's say you type some characters you didn't intend to..hit Undo, yet those characters are still there?

Do you happen to use a very recent development build (r10579 or later)?

yeah, just then I was using the aug 30 build.

is that not advised, and should I stick with the latest official "stable" release only?

thank you!

lb

linebender wrote:yeah, just then I was using the aug 30 build.
is that not advised, and should I stick with the latest official "stable" release only?

It's up to you if you want to test development versions or stick to the stable releases. Development versions are by nature not as stable, and new bugs or regressions can come and go with each new revision. It is certainly helpful to provide information about the Inkscape version/revision + OS/platform when asking questions here, especially if you decided to use (unstable, changing) development builds.

The issue with remaining artifacts of deleted portions of text objects is a recent regression which came with the merged code for the new rendering cache:

• Bug #837291 in Inkscape: “Text artifacts after character deletion”
  (zooming in or out makes them disappear)

OK.

FYI, Zooming in/out wasn't working consistently for me, but maybe that's just my set-up.

thanks!

lb

I also tend to use recent develop version (downloaded from modevia).

Until this date I prefer version r10575 and r10414. Any versions between those have serious problems with ghost artifact of existing objects.

Also the newer r10582 version has a serious bug that make some selected objects impossible to deselect.

Grobe wrote:I also tend to use recent develop version (downloaded from modevia).

Until this date I prefer version r10575 and r10414. Any versions between those have serious problems with ghost artifact of existing objects.

Thanks, Grobe..let me make sure I understand you: you mean you do NOT use between version r10575 and r10414, or those before or after?

thanks!

lb

Hi. I recall that r10386 also was a version that didn't had any noticeable bugs. But before that, I cannot remember the whole story.

I do remember there was a version r10256 that finally solved the problem with gaps between pattern. It was early juni, and that is one bugfix I won't forget. A big thanks to the developer(s) for that fix.

Grobe wrote:Hi. I recall that r10386 also was a version that (…)

Well, don't forget that those revisions you mention are arbitrary - they happen to be available as windows builds for you, but do not relate to certain commits or bug fix revisions.
Unlike the windows development builds you download from modevia - which are done manually, every other week, sometimes more often - for other platforms (like e.g. Mac OS X, which linebender uses) nightly builds are offered (built & uploaded by a bot script), and users might have newer builds available and/or revisions in-between with some stuff fixed before new regressions occurred.

(after revision 10325 there have been several big changes to the code base, mainly for the renderer, affecting large parts of the code in various steps).