

Unfortunately I can't really test the text as text:.The stroke of the ellipse in ' PathDeform_r9819_sample.svg' converts correctly to path for me with stable Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 as well as with Inkscape 0.48+devel r10996 (both 64bit builds on OS X 10.7.2).Should I remove build? Could that be a solution for restoring correct behavior of the stable one? it works as expected?! Last two on the right are the same, jsut duplicated, cause I thought it would be easier for you to see that there is no deformations. I work in stable one, example is from that file (there are bit more of duplicates/clones but not much more than I usually make) so just out of curiosity I made the same thing in build version, and. but after these few posts and zooming out, I realized this is helvetica ,) At first I thought it might be related to imperfect font. However, it`s my first time to use builds and maybe that could cause this odd behavior of stable version? Perhaps some conflict occurs while both present? As you may see, distortions happen on fonts also, when converted to paths. Which reminded me that I`ve d/l one of the latest builds - r10947, but it`s on secondary drive and it runs without installation. I`m on Win7 / 32 and Inkscape is 0.48.2 r9819 (which is also claimed as stable one). Hhhmmm, no luck, but something about this is really familiar.

Wait, something about this is starting to sound familiar.Let me search through my files, I might know more than I think I do I'm on Win7, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.48.1 stable. Even if I first adjusted the handles, the result was still good. But I got the same, perfectly acceptable result, with all smooth nodes. After converting the ellipse to path, I then changed the smooth nodes to cusp, and then performed the Stroke to path. Usually it is some illogical combination of smooth and cusp nodes. And actually, I should say that it's really the first time I've used Stroke to path, and gotten all smooth nodes. When I perform the Stroke to path, I get all smooth nodes. In Maestral's example, it looks like the nodes are all cusp/corner nodes, with handles askew. But with that exact ellipse in Maestral's example, I get a perfectly acceptable result. And I've also seen paths distorted similar to that. After Stroke to Path is applied, the sharp corner has become a sharp curve. I have seen paths distorted, for example where the original path had a sharp corner. The original ellipse, was it just converted to a path from an ellipse shape? Just 4 nodes in the original? What versions for you 2?
