hi all, thanks for the suggestions. I get the same behaviour on Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit (not entirely up-to-date) as well as on a fully updated Windows 7 Professional 64-bit System. Using the "Unflow" curse does not seem to help, rather on the contrary (behaviour becomes even more e...

OK, thanks, I'll see if I can forward this question in the developer forums.

Kristofer

Naive question, how can text "behave" differently? I'd think that "text is text" and as such should not be dragging along any oddball behaviours from its previous life in Adobe Illustrator. But clearly this naive thought is wrong. And if so, it is automatically true that we "...

hi brynn, thanks for your reply. I did not first convert AI to PDF, but within Inkscape, in order to import the AI file I was automatically (re)directed into the "Import PDF" dialogue. Apparently those follow the same route, which did not surprise me because AI files are deeop down compati...

hi all, I was led to Inkscape by the desire to edit an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file, basically it's a poster with some text that I'd like to modify. So I've installed the latest Inkscape (0.48.4 r9939) and imported the .ai file, using the default setting "Leave text as text". Now when I us...