bulia byak wrote:
In Illustrator, all text and objects appear selected and grouped when the item is open, and then when ungrouped, text is not editable on the path - you can pull the text all over the place in single letters but its not possible to re-word it.
True. That was just the simplest way to implement it. As you know placement of each letter in SVG is affected by kerning (both horizontal and vertical) and letterspacing, plus the text can be put on path. This all can be done in Postscript, but we just don't have a spare Postscript expert for implementing this. Showing each letter separately is much simpler to implement, and it's legal Postscript. Until recently the only way was to convert text to shapes; now you don't need to, but the text is broken into glyphs instead.
In fact, if you have a font change in the middle of the line, Postscript will have this line broken into separate objects anyway - that's just a limitation of the language. So I don't think that our "overdoing" it and breaking it at each chanracter is really that bad.
How difficult is postscript? at present i'm a tourist in the US and have a lot of time on my hands..... if its something a designer can learn it might work... as in, is it as simple as LaTeX?
I think this is an absolute essential, either to train someone up or bring someone in....
I'm not much of a programmer but if someone can cooperate/hold my hand i might be able to do it...
Is there any other way around, other than Postscript? Vector/rasterised text? Illustrator uses this a lot...
Once I'd saved in Illustrator I couldnt re-open the file in Inkscape at all.
Saved as SVG? That's a bug. Please submit the bad file to the bug tracker.
Not yet tried that one but I will... at present its saving to .ai or .eps and then re-opening in Inkscape.
Best,
mC~