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Text and Font dialog: multiline text preview gets too large

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • type a multiline text (with linebreaks)
  • open the Text + Font dialog
  • add more linebreaks
  • scale text up

(reported at https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/possible-bug-text-and-font-menu/ and by @shlomif in the chat)

What happened?

The Text+Font dialog creates a new preview line for each text line, which makes it a bit unwieldy.

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What should have happened?

Only one, or maybe three lines max should be in the preview - or the preview needs to be scaled down.

Inkscape Version and Operating System:

  • Inkscape Version: 1.0beta1 (41b5402471, 2019-11-21)
  • Operating System: Linux Mint 19.2
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