I'm using Inkscape to do page layout to get some fancy folding options beyond MS Word's or Publishers capability and to incorporate the vector graphics we already have. The issue is when I want to make minor edits to a paragraph the paragraph formatting is lost. How can I best deal with the issues below? Do I edit text differently or something else.
My Process is Word 2010---> Cute-PDF 4.0 ---> Inkscape This renders nice paragraphs in Inkscape. If I do Word 2010---> Save as PDF---> Inkscape I get a pile of letters next to each other and no real paragraphs.
If I take the paragraph and under "text and fonts" and edit the text the line spacing and some of the character spacing changes and often the font size changes by a few decimal places IE 9.0708 font size changes to 9.75 on it's own. In addition the line spacing gets huge (around 2)
I If I double click on the text to get the text properties before editing, interestingly enough the line spacing shows 0 even though it is not. The character spacing and other parameters also shows 0 even though it clearly is not. For this reason I can't edit the text here or the characters are on top of each other. If I make any changes here it grabs these "0 values"
The partial work around is to edit the text in the other box (Text and Font box) then change the line spacing from 0 to 1.15 lines and now I am very close but still some character spacing is off.
So ideally I can either 1) Edit text paragraph in the Text and Font box and preserve all other settings and formats. Or 2) Edit the text by double clicking on the text box but have the text properties there be taken from the text box and not show 0.
What am I doing wrong? What is the work around?
(Edit: I realize this should have been posted to "basics". My error. It would not let me delete or move. Sorry.
When importing text from other documents, I usually start with "Remove manual kerns". Formatting may change, but further composing behavior is more predictable.
Looks like "remove manual kerns" is exactly the PROBLEM not the solution. IE when I edit the text it not only edits the text but it removes any kerning defined by the PDF (and/or word). I want to edit the text and not loose formatting.
It looks like "remove manual Kerns" and just changing a paragraph by 1 letter both do the same thing and increase line and character spacing the same way. How can I not get editing text to do an automatic remove manual kerns?
Text in Inkscape will follow the conventions of svg, which may differ greatly from a word processor or DTP.
If I'm going to do document layout in Inkscape, I'm going to start in Inkscape and lessen the inherent differences due to translation from one program to another, more so when going from one type of software to another (e.g. DTP >Illustration). Even more so exaggerated by going from document software (Word) to presentation software (PDF) to illustration (Inkscape).
Inkscape may be the swiss-army knife of vector illustration, but it isn't a magic wand.
Using Inkscape with Other Programs Paragraph formatting lost on editing
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I'm using Inkscape to do page layout to get some fancy folding options beyond MS Word's or Publishers capability and to incorporate the vector graphics we already have. The issue is when I want to make minor edits to a paragraph the paragraph formatting is lost. How can I best deal with the issues below? Do I edit text differently or something else.
My Process is Word 2010---> Cute-PDF 4.0 ---> Inkscape
This renders nice paragraphs in Inkscape.
If I do Word 2010---> Save as PDF---> Inkscape
I get a pile of letters next to each other and no real paragraphs.
If I take the paragraph and under "text and fonts" and edit the text the line spacing and some of the character spacing changes and often the font size changes by a few decimal places IE 9.0708 font size changes to 9.75 on it's own. In addition the line spacing gets huge (around 2)
I If I double click on the text to get the text properties before editing, interestingly enough the line spacing shows 0 even though it is not. The character spacing and other parameters also shows 0 even though it clearly is not. For this reason I can't edit the text here or the characters are on top of each other. If I make any changes here it grabs these "0 values"
The partial work around is to edit the text in the other box (Text and Font box) then change the line spacing from 0 to 1.15 lines and now I am very close but still some character spacing is off.
So ideally I can either
1) Edit text paragraph in the Text and Font box and preserve all other settings and formats. Or
2) Edit the text by double clicking on the text box but have the text properties there be taken from the text box and not show 0.
What am I doing wrong? What is the work around?
(Edit: I realize this should have been posted to "basics". My error. It would not let me delete or move. Sorry.
yeah, cover letter editing is a pain in the butt. press backspace and all paragraph spaces are kaput.
When importing text from other documents, I usually start with "Remove manual kerns". Formatting may change, but further composing behavior is more predictable.
Thanks. I think I accidentally overwrote the SVG with a PDF. Seems to be getting hammered out in some areas, I'll try to remove manual kerns. Thanks.
Looks like "remove manual kerns" is exactly the PROBLEM not the solution. IE when I edit the text it not only edits the text but it removes any kerning defined by the PDF (and/or word). I want to edit the text and not loose formatting.
It looks like "remove manual Kerns" and just changing a paragraph by 1 letter both do the same thing and increase line and character spacing the same way. How can I not get editing text to do an automatic remove manual kerns?
There is no automatic removal of kerns, AFAIK.
Text in Inkscape will follow the conventions of svg, which may differ greatly from a word processor or DTP.
If I'm going to do document layout in Inkscape, I'm going to start in Inkscape and lessen the inherent differences due to translation from one program to another, more so when going from one type of software to another (e.g. DTP >Illustration). Even more so exaggerated by going from document software (Word) to presentation software (PDF) to illustration (Inkscape).
Inkscape may be the swiss-army knife of vector illustration, but it isn't a magic wand.