From 5e4318dcf1a5abd6d513e0321c78939d20e6a7f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joelholdsworth <joelholdsworth@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:17:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix for bug #168283: possible to create empty paths via
 text -> object to path. Text that produces no glyphs is left unconverted.

---
 src/path-chemistry.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/path-chemistry.cpp b/src/path-chemistry.cpp
index 7466a7066..c71784b57 100644
--- a/src/path-chemistry.cpp
+++ b/src/path-chemistry.cpp
@@ -372,6 +372,14 @@ sp_selected_item_to_curved_repr(SPItem *item, guint32 /*text_grouping_policy*/)
     if (!curve)
         return NULL;
 
+    // Prevent empty paths from being added to the document
+    // otherwise we end up with zomby markup in the SVG file
+    if(curve->end <= 0)
+    {
+        sp_curve_unref(curve);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     Inkscape::XML::Document *xml_doc = SP_OBJECT_REPR(item)->document();
     Inkscape::XML::Node *repr = xml_doc->createElement("svg:path");
     /* Transformation */
-- 
2.39.5