# What exactly is wrong with Krita's 5.2.x and 5.3.0 prealpha's text and vector engine?

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**Category:** Artists Feedback & Testing\
**Created:** [September 27, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/what-exactly-is-wrong-with-kritas-5-2-x-and-5-3-0-prealphas-text-and-vector-engine/142681 "2025-09-27T23:38:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![novames00](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/novames00/32/577_2.png) [@novames00](https://krita-artists.org/u/novames00)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/what-exactly-is-wrong-with-kritas-5-2-x-and-5-3-0-prealphas-text-and-vector-engine/142681/1 "2025-09-27T23:38:39Z")

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Lag? Sometimes.  
Glitches ? Consistently in some specific scenario.  
What is happening that is bizarre ?

Text writing is glitchy.  
The “scales styles” and “global coordinates” are weirdly behaving on a vector object.  
They always behave like the center of the object is far away, outside from the visible  
portion of the canvas or viewport.

Additionally : when you place vector rectangles on the canvas, and try to control its handles  
using the pen of your tablet, even after you lift your pen and keep moving, the handle glues  
itself to the cursor and will never stop moving if you don’t stop moving yourself.

This never happens with the mouse.

Now I’m wondering how many other obscure bugs and unexpected behaviors this software possesses.

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**Author:** ![mmiller](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/mmiller/32/156555_2.png) [@mmiller](https://krita-artists.org/u/mmiller)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/what-exactly-is-wrong-with-kritas-5-2-x-and-5-3-0-prealphas-text-and-vector-engine/142681/2 "2025-09-28T01:32:40Z")

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Keep discovering more bugs; this is important for the developers.

Regarding the report about the pen keeping moving, if you’re on Windows, it might be ‘Windows Ink’ causing this.

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**Author:** ![Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/takiro/32/209381_2.png) [@Takiro](https://krita-artists.org/u/Takiro)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/what-exactly-is-wrong-with-kritas-5-2-x-and-5-3-0-prealphas-text-and-vector-engine/142681/3 "2025-09-28T09:04:45Z")

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This is perhaps worth mentioning in the text tool thread instead?

> [@Text Tool Thread](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973):
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> Hey everyone, This is a thread dedicated to the development of the text tool. The majority of the work discussed in this thread has led to the text tool in 5.3, where you can edit text on canvas and have access to advanced typography features. If you find bugs, please report them to [bugs.kde.org](https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=krita&component=tool/text) under the product Krita, in the component Text. Updates I wrote several introductions to text as updates to this thread. Here’s a list of them: [Fonts](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/132)[Open Type Features](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/190)[Font Metrics](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/203)[Style…](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/219)

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**Author:** ![novames00](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/novames00/32/577_2.png) [@novames00](https://krita-artists.org/u/novames00)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/what-exactly-is-wrong-with-kritas-5-2-x-and-5-3-0-prealphas-text-and-vector-engine/142681/4 "2025-09-29T10:48:45Z")

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I am never ever using Windows Ink.  
Wintab is better.