Re: [Inkscape-user] text frame scaling

15 Oct 2007

      I can only agree with your statement, the boxed text behaviour in Inkscape 
is uncomfortable in comparison with other software.
Molumen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Christian Berg" <david@...290...>
To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] text frame scaling
...
Well, I didn't know, where to cling in with this mail, so I just
figured, further up in the thread might be a good place, esp, since I
agree with Erik.
The behaviour as described for Corel is the normal behaviour for any
application I know.
If you have a flowed text, I don't want it's size to be modified, when
modifying the container it is in. It may be a approach coming from the
far layouting edge of graphics, but flowed texts _are_ in that edge as
well. It's the same with images, btw: If I have a image clipped and I
change the clipping box, I don't want to scale the image, unless I
explicitly say I want to.
But back to text: the behaviour of Inkscape is quite strange in my
opinion. since however, the selection tool only selects the text and not
the box it is in, I didn't really have problems using it. However, it
costs _a lot_ of time, because I select the text with the selection
tool, need to notice that not the box is selected, need to remember "Ah,
right, Inkscape uses the text tool" and then go ahead with that one,
only to face the problem, that I cannot adjust the size in millimetres
anywhere. So let's make some guidelines to adjust the size...
As you can see: quite uncomfortable :)
Cheers!
David
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 22:02 +1000, kaver wrote:
...
OK. When I set up text in CorelDraw I usually prepare a text frame, then
insert the text. Then if I need to change the text frame dimensions I 
change
them using the normal top/side/diagonal arrows. The critical factor for 
me
is that the text itself stays the same size. Ie the point size and
height/width do not change.
If I do the same in Inkscape then the height and width of the letters
changes with the frame and the text does not remain the same. I find this
incredibly frustrating to the point that it is a real limitation on using
Inkscape where text is involved. Xara behaves like this as well.
Is there a setting in Inkscape that enables me to have the text untouched
during these frame changes? I guess I am looking for something like the
scale change button that allows you to scale the line dimensions or not 
as
the scale changes. It may be staring me in the face.
Erik

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Re: [Inkscape-user] text frame scaling

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