From 6bb0828320c9d79a07c544947c4d50c747a82e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Lee <2431820-nathanal@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 14:15:00 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add check for empty text on path

Fixes https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/261
---
 src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
index a3c11133b0..812abba58c 100644
--- a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
+++ b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
@@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ void Layout::fitToPathAlign(SVGLength const &startOffset, Path const &path)
             offset = startOffset.computed;
     }
 
-    switch (_paragraphs.front().alignment) {
+    Alignment alignment = _paragraphs.empty() ? LEFT : _paragraphs.front().alignment;
+    switch (alignment) {
         case CENTER:
             offset -= _getChunkWidth(0) * 0.5;
             break;
-- 
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From 3b1037c9a631989711a556660f5e15d7b639302e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Lee <2431820-nathanal@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 14:15:39 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Keep text on path centered when empty

---
 src/text-editing.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/text-editing.cpp b/src/text-editing.cpp
index 2ccab04920..af73c41403 100644
--- a/src/text-editing.cpp
+++ b/src/text-editing.cpp
@@ -1981,6 +1981,7 @@ versions can be removed. I haven't analysed my work in detail to figure
 out if this is so. */
 static bool tidy_xml_tree_recursively(SPObject *root, bool has_text_decoration)
 {
+    if (SP_IS_TEXTPATH(root)) return false;
     gchar const *root_style = (root)->getRepr()->attribute("style");
     if(root_style && strstr(root_style,"text-decoration"))has_text_decoration = true;
     static bool (* const tidy_operators[])(SPObject**, bool) = {
-- 
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