When pasting in text (or typing directly into Inkscape) tab indents are not recognised. I am a novelist. I have a book having over 2600 paragraphs. I would need to add spaces to make up the lack of tab recognition. This is not practical proposition. I use Inkscape 1.2.
One way that seems to work is to use the "Text and Font->Text" panel; Tabs are applied. Not very convenient. Perhaps LibreOffice or Scribus are better choices for extensive text work.
Hi, I am also a writer. I use Inkscape mainly for the covers, and currently for animations for advertising; the only text block stuff I do is for the Title Pages and one logo page after the story block and this is because these pages contain a logo my old fashioned word processor cannot handle the res for.
PDFs are the way to go. Do not use Inkscape for the text work natively, but instead import a prepared PDF that is already finish formatted, unless of course you are doing a title with a spindizzy effect, then obviously use Inkscape, but certainly don’t use Inkscape for the text block.
I am not sure what you are wanting to do, but if you only have a few text pages with pics, do these in Inkscape and then export as a PDF and join them externally to other PDF sections. My novels all use the same format: I have 5 PDF sections to a novel, s1 is text, s2 is an Inkscape PDF, s3 is the story block, s4 is an Inkscape PDF, and s5 is a text-block; a note from the author. I then use ghostscript to join the 5 text sections together.
The covers I design separately and output to PDF. As far as I am aware, Inkscape cannot output an uncompressed PDF, however for the covers, I use 600 dpi, and so far nothing I have published has shown any lost of detail.
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When pasting in text (or typing directly into Inkscape) tab indents are not recognised. I am a novelist. I have a book having over 2600 paragraphs. I would need to add spaces to make up the lack of tab recognition. This is not practical proposition. I use Inkscape 1.2.
Is there a way of achieving tab recognition?
One way that seems to work is to use the "Text and Font->Text" panel; Tabs are applied. Not very convenient. Perhaps LibreOffice or Scribus are better choices for extensive text work.
Hi, I am also a writer. I use Inkscape mainly for the covers, and currently for animations for advertising; the only text block stuff I do is for the Title Pages and one logo page after the story block and this is because these pages contain a logo my old fashioned word processor cannot handle the res for.
PDFs are the way to go. Do not use Inkscape for the text work natively, but instead import a prepared PDF that is already finish formatted, unless of course you are doing a title with a spindizzy effect, then obviously use Inkscape, but certainly don’t use Inkscape for the text block.
I am not sure what you are wanting to do, but if you only have a few text pages with pics, do these in Inkscape and then export as a PDF and join them externally to other PDF sections. My novels all use the same format: I have 5 PDF sections to a novel, s1 is text, s2 is an Inkscape PDF, s3 is the story block, s4 is an Inkscape PDF, and s5 is a text-block; a note from the author. I then use ghostscript to join the 5 text sections together.
The covers I design separately and output to PDF. As far as I am aware, Inkscape cannot output an uncompressed PDF, however for the covers, I use 600 dpi, and so far nothing I have published has shown any lost of detail.