All the online guides I can find insist that this is a straightforward set of procedures.
In a line of text I need to adjust the position of some characters. I can highlight a character to modify but the Horizontal kerning, Vertical kerning and Character rotation tools in the toolbar are greyed out (the Spacing between letters and Spacing between words are active). This is the case with all fonts I have tried, including System fonts.
What am I missing?
Windows 10, Inkscape 1.1.1 installed with inkscape-1.1.1_2021-09-20_3bf5ae0d25-x64.msi
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All the online guides I can find insist that this is a straightforward set of procedures.
In a line of text I need to adjust the position of some characters. I can highlight a character to modify but the Horizontal kerning, Vertical kerning and Character rotation tools in the toolbar are greyed out (the Spacing between letters and Spacing between words are active). This is the case with all fonts I have tried, including System fonts.
What am I missing?
Windows 10, Inkscape 1.1.1 installed with inkscape-1.1.1_2021-09-20_3bf5ae0d25-x64.msi
These features are not supported by the text in a shape aka flowed text.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/703#note_287845260
Text can be created by a simple click on the canvas before typing. This text can contain line returns and supports the letter kerning, rotate, etc.
Thanks, got it - not a method I've come across before. If only I had read the introduction to text instead of jumping in at the hard stuff.
Thanks for your time - apologies for taking it up.