Manual kerning seems to work well for text on a path but Inkscape fails to save the kerning attributes.
In the XML editor I can see kerning information under the style property. But when I examine the saved svg file, I find that the kerning attribute has been omitted.
<text
xml:space="preserve"
style="font-size:5.64444px;font-family:Arial;text-anchor:middle"
id="text13460"><textPath
xlink:href="#path13456"
startOffset="50%"
id="textPath13458">Text on a path with kerning</textPath></text>
Exported pdf looks perfect but I can't save my wonderful artwork text layouts in svg. Is it just me? Can somebody please test this?
Thank you Tyler. Again. After some experimentation, it seems I somehow created a "poisoned" svg. Kerning works perfectly when I start from scratch in a new drawing.
This has happened to me a few times now. Inkscape occasionally gets confused, especially when I combine multiple path effects and filter effects. Sometimes the poison is strong enough to drag down the entire application with a single click in the GUI. Looking through the svg code, it's not obvious which elements or combination of elements are problematic. I can usually recover my work with a text editor, selectively copying raw code into a new file.
There's perhaps one silver lining. Through Inkscape's imperfections I'm re-learning the wisdom of regular saves, backups and progress copies, though it's hard sometimes to preserve a Zen state. Om.
Beyond the Basics Kerning Bug - Text on Path
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Manual kerning seems to work well for text on a path but Inkscape fails to save the kerning attributes.
In the XML editor I can see kerning information under the style property. But when I examine the saved svg file, I find that the kerning attribute has been omitted.
Exported pdf looks perfect but I can't save my
wonderful artworktext layouts in svg. Is it just me? Can somebody please test this?Kerning seems to work here in 1.1.1 under Win/Linux.
Thank you Tyler. Again. After some experimentation, it seems I somehow created a "poisoned" svg. Kerning works perfectly when I start from scratch in a new drawing.
This has happened to me a few times now. Inkscape occasionally gets confused, especially when I combine multiple path effects and filter effects. Sometimes the poison is strong enough to drag down the entire application with a single click in the GUI. Looking through the svg code, it's not obvious which elements or combination of elements are problematic. I can usually recover my work with a text editor, selectively copying raw code into a new file.
There's perhaps one silver lining. Through Inkscape's imperfections I'm re-learning the wisdom of regular saves, backups and progress copies, though it's hard sometimes to preserve a Zen state. Om.