On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:11:00PM +1100, vellum wrote:
[How do I use a common font size/style for 100 pieces of text;] I can group [them] but what then??
There are a couple of solutions I'd like to suggest, but neither works in Inkscape currently.
- Select each of the text elements you're interested in changing. The font dialog box would indicate that some of the properties vary among the selected items. You'd change the font size from `varying' to `10px'.
- After grouping them, change the font size of the group. If necessary, click a button to make all children/all descendents of the group have the same font size.
The current version of inkscape does something similar with colour (and probably all fill & stroke properties, I haven't checked). It applies the selected fill colour to all descendents of the group.
As neither of the above exist in current Inkscape, I'll have to make a third suggestion: Group them, save & close the document, then use a text editor to remove all occurrences of `font-size:[0-9]*;' from the descendents of that <g> element (i.e. everything between the `<g>' and its matching `</g>'). Then open it with inkscape again. Whenever you change the font-size of the g element (using the XML editor), the descendents of that g element will change accordingly.
Unfortunately, inkscape doesn't allow setting font-size or other properties to explicitly blank or `inherit' other than using the XML editor.
Also unfortunately, font-size and most other properties default to non-blank, resulting large style strings and difficulty in using <g> elements to make lots of items inherit a common property value.
pjrm.