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Inkscape: Text Editing

Contents 1 Creating Text 2 Selecting Text 3 Editing Text 4 Formatting Text 5 Kerning, Shifting, and Rotating Characters 6 Text on a Path 7 Text in a Shape 8 Wrapping Text 8.1 Warning! Flowed Text -> Non-Standard Issues!

Creating Text

• Entering Regular Text
• Entering Flowed Text

Selecting Text

Editing Text

• Spell Checking

Formatting Text

• Formatting with the Tool Controls
• Formatting with the Keyboard
• Formatting with the Text and Font Dialog

Kerning, Shifting, and Rotating Characters

• Kerning and Shifting
• Rotating

Text on a Path

Text in a Shape

Wrapping Text

• Ref:

1. inkscapeforum.com -- How to wrap text for a long paragraph?
2. tavmjong.free.fr -- Inkscape User Manual Chapter 9. Text
3. tavmjong.free.fr -- Inkscape User Manual: Entering Flowed Text

Inkscape wraps text automatically but you have to give it a clue where the boundary is by drawing a text box before starting to type or picking an object to insert the text into.

Warning! Flowed Text -> Non-Standard Issues!

Flowed text was a draft SVG 1.2 specification that will not in the end be adopted. The text is not likely to be viewable by other renderers. In addition, some programs will not render any of a file with flowed text (Squiggle, for example). You can convert the flowed text to a regular text object before saving to avoid this problem.

using 'Flowed text' in Inkscape creates SVG documents that are not compatible with other SVG renderers like for example Firefox. This is because the way 'Flowed text' is currently implemented by Inkscape is not part of the SVG 1.1 specification and it has not yet been definitely decided how the standard for implementing flowed text will be in SVG 1.2.