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)
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).
TIA Craig Scribus Team
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.
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).
Bryce
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
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:25:17PM +0200, Craig Bradney wrote:
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?
Ah, after converting to text, do the break-paths-apart command (shift-ctrl-k)
Bryce
On Monday 26 September 2005 22:35, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:25:17PM +0200, Craig Bradney wrote:
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?
Ah, after converting to text, do the break-paths-apart command (shift-ctrl-k)
Just to complete the conversation, I visited #inkscape and chatted to Bryce and suggested, in such a case where Ungroup is not correct in Inkscape functionality, that break paths apart be added to the context menu.
Pretty please...
Craig
On 9/26/05, Craig Bradney <cbradney@...242...> wrote:
Second item from the bottom in the Text menu. Also, there is a commandline option '-T, --export-text-to-path' to do this.
No no no. The second from bottom in Text only converts flowed text to regular text. What was asked for is Path > Object to Path.
The commandline option only applies to PS/EPS commandline export.
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.
You don't need to do this, except to make sure it did indeed convert.
I didn't arrive at that because I didnt get a context menu option for Ungroup (?) so I can drag the letters apart...
Convert to path on text does not make a group. It makes a single complex path. Break Apart will then separate letters, though you need to Combine again those which had holes to restore the holes. (There's an RFE on making this less cumbersome.)
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