Hello,
I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting existing text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick, but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a new separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the manual or tutorials. Any advice?
Julie
Hello,
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:58:10PM -0300, Julie wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting existing text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick, but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a new separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the manual or tutorials. Any advice?
You may have to switch from the text-tool to the select-cursor (F1) to safely select existing text instead of creating a new text-object.
I cannot see how the described behaviour would appear otherwise.
Best regards,
Lo
This happens to me when I don't exactly hover over the text. The "hover point" of your cursor should be over the actual text characters' "limbs" - if it's over the blank space between characters or in the middle of characters, it will select whatever's behind it (in this case, no text, which starts a new text input).
JF
Lorenz Köhl wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:58:10PM -0300, Julie wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting existing text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick, but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a new separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the manual or tutorials. Any advice?
You may have to switch from the text-tool to the select-cursor (F1) to safely select existing text instead of creating a new text-object.
I cannot see how the described behaviour would appear otherwise.
Best regards,
Lo
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Thanks so much for your help.
Julie
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joshua Facemyer Sent: August 2, 2008 6:57 PM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] trouble selecting text
This happens to me when I don't exactly hover over the text. The "hover point" of your cursor should be over the actual text characters' "limbs" - if it's over the blank space between characters or in the middle of characters, it will select whatever's behind it (in this case, no text, which starts a new text input).
JF
Lorenz Köhl wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:58:10PM -0300, Julie wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new inkscape user, and I've run into some trouble selecting
existing
text in a document. At first clicking on the text seemed to do the trick, but now the program seems to interpret my click as me wanting to input a
new
separate line of text. I can't find any mention of this problem in the manual or tutorials. Any advice?
You may have to switch from the text-tool to the select-cursor (F1) to
safely
select existing text instead of creating a new text-object.
I cannot see how the described behaviour would appear otherwise.
Best regards,
Lo
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