On 16/1/10 10:31, Wolf Drechsel wrote: you are looking for 'Flowed text'? <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Ente... <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Flow.html> To change an existing regular text-object, draw a rectangle with the desired new text frame proportions, select both the text-object and the rectangle and use menu 'Text > Flow into Frame'. Caveat: 'Flowed Text' will create issues in other SVG renderers. Please use 'Text > Convert to Text' and save as separate (maybe Plain SVG) file if you need to be able to to edit the flowed text later. ~suv