fix crash 1640798

diff --git a/src/text-chemistry.cpp b/src/text-chemistry.cpp
index 0a655fdcb5e3620daeee1e69ff04dba10bc86871..79d5e3a2dc390d5a62068ea6b80c0db2beaff839 100644 (file)
--- a/src/text-chemistry.cpp
+++ b/src/text-chemistry.cpp
@@ -397,6 +397,10 @@ text_unflow ()
 
         SPItem *flowtext = SP_ITEM(items->data);
 
+        if (sp_te_get_string_multiline(flowtext) == NULL) { // flowtext is empty
+            continue;
+        }
+
         /* Create <text> */
         Inkscape::XML::Node *rtext = xml_doc->createElement("svg:text");
         rtext->setAttribute("xml:space", "preserve"); // we preserve spaces in the text objects we create