Hello, I am an advance Gimp user but a novice at Inkscape. I would like to know how to edit this graphical text that I made. It is all one layer but with three parts.https://i.imgur.com/CGYfO2l.png

Is there a way to edit all three "layers" at once with my own custom text, as if it were a text template? Thank you.

I figured out how to do it by taking advantage of a "find and replace all"  option in a text editor, then dragging the SVG file back into Inkscape. But I would like to know if it were possible to do this within Inkscape in a non technical way.

Can someone tell me if it is possible to do something like this within Inkscape? It is okay if it requires an extension.

Hi,

Roy here. I can help you indirectly.  I've been writing tutorials on how to do basic graphic design using Inkscape these past several years, and at least one tutorial might help you along.  You'll find it at:

https://roy-torley.github.io/Inkscape_Tutorial/Tutorial06/Tutorial06.html

I show you how to use layers in this tutorial.  Each layer that you have for your text (I see what looks like three layers) can be put into their own Inkscape layer or put into one to produce an image stack, depending on your work flow.  It looks like each layer might have a different transparency, which is no problem -- just change the transparency of this or that object using Object < Fill and Stroke... < Fill, and adjust with the opacity slider or by entering a numerical textually.

I can't make the time right now to learn Gimp, but I figure you're in tune with the sense and sensibility of what goes into graphic design that you can go forward and explore and play with the options that Inkscape has for you.  I invite you to explore the whole Inkscape tutorial I'm putting together and use anything and everything.  I plan to learn Gimp myself.  Right now, Inkscape is at the forefront of my endeavors and I want to finish the tutorial series to satisfaction before I move on to the next frontier.

Please enjoy, grow, and (I almost forgot) welcome to the Inkscape community!

Roy

Welcome Beaver.

Clones and Filters are two very different methods to achieve your effect.  In both cases, modifying a shape instantly updates multiple copies of that shape.  Clones are conceptually simpler than filters and easier to master.  I suggest you start here. 

Though I'm a long-time Inkscape user, I still consider myself a filter novice.  When you venture beyond the built-in filter effects, it's more like programming than illustration or graphic design.  There's a dizzying variety of effects available but they're complicated.  This has been a learning opportunity for me too.

Here is a simple idea/method.

By the way, within Inkscape, you can open the XML Editor (Shift & Ctrl & X), and make changes there.

I am not in front of Inkscape currently ... I am not sure if there is a find and replace text within it or not.

But you could open up notepad, wordpad, etc. and press CTRL & H within it, and replace verbiage that way. Such as color codes or text itself.

Then copy and paste between the two programs.

Thank you everyone for replying.

@ken10001000  Good idea, but I cannot find the text I wrote using the XML editor. I searched for the text "caption" and it did not work.

@Paddy_CAD  I am going to experiment with clones and filters. Thank you for informing me on them.

@Roy_Torley I will check out your tutorial. Thank you for such monumental contributions to the Inkscape community.

I tested the XML editor. It is not useful in this regard as I had hoped.

Just for added info ... I could type single text or multiple texts within MS Word, copy it and paste it into Inkscape, and it worked. (Resizeable, editable font, etc.)

This also worked from Wordpad (standard program in Windows). Using Wordpad, however, you tend to get your text along with a "box like shape" than can separated and deleted in Inkscape.

I could not get this to work in Notepad, however.

It is good to know that one can create texts, words, paragraphs using Wordpad or Word, copy them and paste them into Inkscape.

These each can later be re-worked (edited) within Inkscape.

@Paddy_CAD  I need to update the text and the text only. Nothing else that I am aware of.

beaver

@Paddy_CAD  I need to update the text and the text only. Nothing else that I am aware of.

Yes, a single text edit will update all the associated clones and filter effects.  Also I updated my attachment to show off a little.  The editable text effects now follow an editable curved path.

Can I do the editing within Inkscape, as exposed to a external text editor? any plugins to do this?

As Paddy_Cad suggested, you can set up a clone, use it, and as you "adjust" or change the original, all the associate clones will change as well.

This can wll he done within Inkscape itself.

My previous post - about using other text editors (Wordpad, MS Word, etc.) was so you could create a list of words there and then copy and paste this list into Inkscape and adjust the imported text accordingly.

The "list" could be anthing - such as Victory, Success, Hope, Peace, or Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr or Tom, Mary, George, etc.If you are wanting a "global" text replacing capability within Inkscape, such as a Find and Replace function, I do not think that exists within Inkscape. So, you have to do manually typing for that. Look into the idea of using clones as a start. Or, until someone comes up with a better idea or process.

Is there anyway to set a clone where it only updates the text and nothing else? In order for this to work I would believe I would need something like this.

I am getting salty because people are telling me that Gimp is designed for this workflow when Gimp doesn't even have vector layers or editable stroke or rotatable text. The reality seems to be that there is no open source tool that can handle this task of making graphical text.

Adobe CS2 (2005) does exactly what I want btw but I would like to find a way to do this with open source software.

The question is whether you want to go through all the work with the filters and their almost infinite possibilities?

Just 3 variants from the Filters->Bumps entries:

The only known way I can edit all of these layers at once is with a text editor. See if you guys can figure anything out as I attached the SVG.

Hi, Beaver. I do not know if you know about Edit > Paste Styles. I made a short graphic about it. It may serve as an alternate idea to get your intended results. Try it out a few times. Hope this helps you.

Note - I made a typo in the graphic. I stated "layer paste" but I meant "later paste" ... as in a step (action) ... nothing to do with layers.

As stated before, you do this work on one layer, or in multiple layers, if you wish.

After studying the previous post, read a little more about Paste Style ... such as at

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Copy.html

To investigate more about Clones, see this as a start

https://youtu.be/iHz8JtXANSs

Okay this effect is definitely cool. I learned something. I am studying the clones tool.

https://streamable.com/vva0ex

However, I failed to transfer the effect of all three layers; as it only paste one. Is it possible to paste the style of all three layers?

I´m not sure we're talking about the same thing anymore. The latest iteration with 3 "stylized" text layers has nothing in common with your initial thread opening which shows a filtered result.

Styles can be pasted while holding shift+cmd+V but not across 3 different objects (you'll find in the Edit-menu) - just one at the time.

Beaver, I am not sure I understand you now. Your very first post on this topic, you said "it is all ONE layer but three different parts". Then you state you are working on different layers - three layers.

Working on multiple layers is fine. I am assuming that it takes all the different layers to "compose" your overall desired end result. ( If I am wrong, explain simply.)

You have been told about using the Paste Style option. This pasting of styles can be done on any object, any layer. But as PixelPest has shared - only one object at a time. One.

(You could group the intended objects together as a prior step ... and then do the Edit > Paste Style step. That would make all the objects in that group take on the attributes. Then, as a next step, you could un-group them and deal with then seperately.)

But if you are not dealing with a group, you can only apply the Paste Style option to one object at a time.

You also been told a little about clones. Your cloned objects can be moved to different layers, if you want, and deal with them individually.

So, please clarify. Are you aiming at working with objects on 3 layers? Are these objects grouped at all? Are the objects - actually objects - or are they PATHS (been converted from objects to paths)?

Are you wanting to use clones? Filters?

If you are using multiple layers, are any of them LOCKED? Or, are they all un-locked, so that changes can be made between them?

Are you wanting to make global (overall) changes to these objects in one simple "poof" step? If that is one of your aims, it probably will not happen, but rather require many steps along the way.

We all want to help you. I just need to better understand what you have set up and your expectations. To see if those expectations fit into the realm of what is doable in Inkscape.

@ken10001000  You are right. My original post had one layer with three selections put together, and my second graphical text post had three layers. I understand how that can add confusion. I merged all layers into one but it still did not work as set here.

https://streamable.com/j4x9e2

The paste style only working on one option appears to be what invalidates it from doing what I want.

The clone tools inability to only copy specific things appears to invalidate it for my workflow. From what I understand it doesn't clone filters but it does clone everything else.

Now here is the good news. I managed to solve the problem by using a find and replace dialog within Inkscape. My problem for the most part has been resolved.  I will continue to study the paste style, clone selection and filters mentioned in this thread.

Here is a video of my success.

https://streamable.com/8ej50j

Thank you everyone for helping me.

Beaver, that is really good news.

 I looked at your video and learned something new. I did not kbow about Ctrl and F ... the Find and Replace capability in Inkscape. Thank you very much.

Do have a prosperous and great week ahead.