For an artistic text, after the user has released the mouse button, the artistic text is drawn with the default text, but is if offset by approx. (-width/2, -height/2)
Right, I can confirm this.
Git commit ab1566da19a7ab806ec5e70710e53c81d206b0b3 by Boudewijn Rempt. Committed on 08/04/2012 at 15:50. Pushed by rempt into branch 'master'. Fix position of the text shape inserted by krita's text tool Apparently KoShape::setPosition() sets the position of the center of the shape, not topleft. M +3 -1 krita/plugins/tools/tool_text/kis_tool_text.cc http://commits.kde.org/calligra/ab1566da19a7ab806ec5e70710e53c81d206b0b3
Git commit 32cf0494907c218fa75301e18541d5ca9a0cca21 by Boudewijn Rempt. Committed on 08/04/2012 at 15:50. Pushed by rempt into branch 'calligra/2.4'. Fix position of the text shape inserted by krita's text tool Apparently KoShape::setPosition() sets the position of the center of the shape, not topleft. M +3 -1 krita/plugins/tools/tool_text/kis_tool_text.cc http://commits.kde.org/calligra/32cf0494907c218fa75301e18541d5ca9a0cca21
The behaviour can still be observed in Krita 2.5.