Thank you so much!
On 09/11/2010 09:52 PM, Kjell Lindbo wrote:
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- you need openoffice
- you need the pdf import extension in open office
- import the pdf into the draw module of openoffice, your text will
be split into separate objects as you wish 4) export the figure as a pdf from openoffice 5) import the "openoffice version pdf" into inkscape 6) start working ..... :-) ...
This is so much better than before -- I had tried to work a bit more with the split text feature but couldn't really get it to work.
Using your detour via openoffice, all horizontal text gets split exactly as I want it to! Vertical text seems to be split letter by letter but that's so much easier to fix than having one huge text element where all positioning information is lost.
Thanks again!
Perhaps the import pdf feature of inkscape could at some point incorporate this feature? Given the amount of feedback on the openoffice pdf import feature http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport I could imagine that there would also be quite some happy inkscape users (as me) ;)
To answer my own question about adding print statements to the extension to see it work: don't use "print" but rather "inkex.debug" or "inkex.errormsg" from the inkex.py module!
Happy greetings, Sebastian.