On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, bulia byak wrote:
- Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu and/or the text and font properties dialog.
There's no "font color" in Inkscape (or in SVG). A text object is just an object, so it uses the same way to change its color as other objects.
Right, I know... read that as "the color of the text object". The user just found it very non-intuitive to have to go to two completely separate dialogs to change what he felt to be 'adjacent' properties (size of the text and its color).
- There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object to separate text or node objects.
It should _always_ convert a text string into a group of paths, one path per letter, instead of the single compound path as now. As for breaking a text object into per-letter text objects, what might be the use? With kerning, you can move letters freely without breaking, and text remain editable as text.
That approach sounds good. The breaking into individual letters was only suggested as an assumed intermediary step; being able to go directly from text string to paths-per-letter would be preferable.
- Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa.
Why OO only? We have an RFE for making Inkscape work with system clioboard on all platforms, that will take care of that.
Having it work with everything via the clipboard would be preferred. The user was just testing it against OOo, as that was the app he used most often.
- Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to have exactly the same dimensions.
I don't see how size could be "pasted". Instead I'm thinking about improvements to the Align dialog, one of which might involve a new alignment mode that is allowed to stretch/squeeze, not only move, objects.
Yeah this one also seemed a bit strange to me. The explanation was that when creating a flowchart one wants to keep all the boxes the same dimensions. If you need to resize, you want to resize many other boxes too. I got the feeling the user may have been thinking of Dia experiences, so that may just be a Dia-ism.
The problem I have with diagram boxes in inkscape is that when you resize a shape with a stroked border, the width of the stroke scales too, but usually I want to keep it fixed to a standard width.
Bryce