On Monday 26 September 2005 22:04, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:59:15PM +0200, Craig Bradney wrote:
Hi,
With the chance of being told to RTFM (whats an M anyway?, I still havent read the Scribus ones!)..
Where is the/Is there a Convert Text to Path option in Inkscape? (0.42.2)
Second item from the bottom in the Text menu. Also, there is a commandline option '-T, --export-text-to-path' to do this.
Ok, I tried that but not using Inkscape regularly (don't worry, I dont use another vector app :) ), I didn't think to choose the node editor tool afterwards. I didn't arrive at that because I didnt get a context menu option for Ungroup (?) so I can drag the letters apart... IE, I want to completely break it up so the letters have no more relationship, but it seems to want to keep them related?
Why? Because importing text in an SVG into Scribus is ugly, due to a) limitations with our text frame sizes, b) PostScript vs SVG text definitions (IIRC).
I noticed when loading PDF's into Scribus via pdftops and saving as SVG, somewhere along the line the text all got converted to paths, which didn't result in what I'd hoped for; it'd be great if it could preserve the text (even if it lost some of the font information).
If you are converting a PDF, you are better of using EPS by far. However, if you import an SVG directly into Scribus you should get the text, it just may lose font information.
Craig