Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

[Vivi_Ram]

Hello:

I keep running into an frustrating issue. Whenever I fit text to curve, it always results in an excessively large bounding box for the whole, resulting object. The object is usually just aligned to the left of the box, while the rest of the bounding box is empty. Does anyone have an explanation for this strange behaviour? Is it something I am doing wrong? Thank you!

[Acorn]

I have the same problem. I reckon Xara got its maths wrong.

Acorn

[handrawn]

FWIW - I don't see this in XDP 20 or earlier versions, bounding boxes look normal

[Vivi_Ram]

Bizarre stuff. It is really frustrating because when I group Text of curve objects with other objects, the bounding box continues to be excessively large. Hope Xara fixes this.

[Vivi_Ram]

Nope: Just checked on XDP 20, too. Same issue. Frustrating.

[handrawn]

I'm not using the blue dash boundary boxes - it may be an issue connected to them...

[handrawn]

I think I got it - it is a combination of the blue dash boundary boxes and inserting text from within a text box - inserting text from a text line rather than a box seems ok

but sorry no time to look at this any more, hope it helps

... in other words it is including the box in some way, not just the text, within the boundary...