Ah OK, I get it now. This occurs only when rectangular text areas are defined on the canvas with the text tool. It doesn't happen if you simply click on the canvas with the text tool. Confirmed on Karmic with Inkscape 0.47~pre4-0ubuntu1.
** Also affects: inkscape Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Text tool creates invisible 'artifacts' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs