On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 07:10 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
Inkscape now features a complete support for flowed text:
o Creation of flowed text is simple. Just drag anywhere oncanvas (except over an existing text object) using the Text tool to create a rectangular frame. After you release mouse, the frame is created and you can type text into it.
cool!!!
o Resizing a frame is as simple as dragging the handle inthe bottom right corner to change its width or height. Drag with Ctrl to restrict resizing to horizontal or vertical. Such resizing can be done by Text tool, Node tool, or any shape tool; however, only Text tool also highlights the frame border when a flowed text is selected.
Well, first of all, I think that the frame should show with all tools, secondly I'd prefer the selection tool to transform the shape the text is flowed in and thirdly I've filed bug #1223132 because there is a reproducible crash.
o Transforming a flowed text is straightforward. It isselected as a single object including both the frame and the text, and can be moved, scaled, rotated etc.
This is what feels kinda strange.... it should be rotatable etc... just behave like a rectangle.
Further more:
The text and font dialogue should only show the selected part of the text!
Also: a big thanx for the ctrl+a to select all the text and not all the objects, when you have a text marked. What would be great would be double click to select a word and triple click for the whole line. Is this down the road with pangoification?
Thanx again... even though not yet perfect imho, I really, really like the new text tool!
David