Hi,

I tried again and the same deal " Comment: Post has been blocked. " with no indication of WHY. I am not sure if there is some size limit or if a link I tried in three different ways to include is the problem or what could be the deal. The link has spaces inserted now that makes it hard for people on mobile to assemble but sometimes gets past automated spam filters.

I am placing the text of my post here and you can decide if it should be posted or not.

"Using Inkscape with other programs" forum ===== Loading PDF to edit hides most text with "font-size: 1e-32px;" -----

Hi All,

I just created this account to post this message. I would rather have added my observation onto one of the bugs but GitLab insists on linking a phone number and possibly a credit card (I don't have one) to my email address that I agreed to when registering. They have performed a sinister bait and switch because they have issues and are possibly preparing to leak all the data pairs one day with a so called breach.

So if one is using Inkscape on a non Latin operating system the import of a PDF file may fail by hiding all the text. Inspection of the XML shows a characteristic (but mentioned only ONCE on the internet) error in the import yet the preview thumbnail is not affected by the bug and does display the text.

In the XML the following can be observed.

font-size: 1e-32px;

This is very, very small and not visible though if you select the text in the object list it does get selected and it is possible to EDIT the XML value or ADD Inkscape text styling to the element and it will be displayed. When viewing the XML we see the Inkscape styling is added to the text-id object but the damaged styling is in one of the tags one level down but before the text string.

My case is not a non-Latin OS, a pretty vanilla MacOS 15.3 with US and/or UK, FIN settings. I loaded the latest stable InkScape onto my colleagues laptop so they could try and edit a single PDF file. There seems to be few open-source PDF editors that will allow actual real editing. While all the lines and embedded graphic show up correctly on Inkscape the loss of text makes it unusable. If there was a way to parse a PDF and hack it so this bug was not triggered then I suppose that would be fine.

Also the funny thing was that in my case one text string out of about 60 strings was displayed correctly. Also I am not sure if the bold styling was lost or if a bold font was used but when I edit the error in the XML file for font-size the text is correctly displayed but the weight is not.

A very similar fault is discussed in the following GitLab error that is just over a year old. gitlab . com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4845

I regret that I am unable to provide a sample file until I can edit out the customer details and this would require a working PDF editor.

Regards

Kalle -- Helsinki, Finland =====

Regards

Kalle -- Kalle Pihlajasaari Helsinki, Finland +358 41 493 1880 kalle.pihlajasaari@gmail.com

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 21:03, webmaster@inkscape.org wrote:

Dear Kalle,

A new post on the topic "Post blocked?" by Tyler Durden:

I did not see any record of another post, but your first message is hereby approved.

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Link: http://www.inkscape.org/forums/questions/post-blocked/#c80822

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