
Hello:
I am currently editing some .svg figures created in R and cannot seem to get the text in the figures to be recognized as text. Double-clicking on the text doesn't switch to the text objects cursor. When I select a piece of text, change to the text-object cursor and hover over the text I do not get the expected blue outline indicating Inkscape recognizes the characters as text. I can ungroup the text to give individual characters, which Inkscape is telling me are "objects of the type Symbol".
Because this seems to be a recent development I'm wondering if my recent system update could be part of the problem. I recently updated to Mac OS 10.10.3 and am running XQuartz 2.7.7. When I go back to R-generated .svg files from before my upgrade I cannot edit the text in these files either, though I'm pretty sure I could before.
Does this seem to make any sense to anyone? Have any of you out there encountered similar problems trying to edit text under Mac OS 10.10?
Cheers, Kurt Wollenberg, Ph.D. Contractor - MSC, Inc. Phylogenetics Specialist Computational Biology Section Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH
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Hi,
You can try to unlink the symbols (select symbols, edit->clone->unlink clone) to find out what they are, with any luck the symbol is a text element, but if they are paths they would not have been editable with older versions either... Can you upload such a file so that we can take a look at the svg structure ?
Thanks,
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Marc Jeanmougin
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Wollenberg, Kurt (NIH/NIAID) [C]