I am completely new to Inkscape. Currently I am having some trouble with something that might be a minor issue (hopefully).
I want to edit already existing text in a SVG file. When clicking on the text to select it, the status bar says “Group of x objects”. So every letter is saved as one object, and the entire word is made out of several objects (for instance “Hello” is saved as a group of 5 objects). I can not make any changes to the text (like increasing font size, italics and so on). I am using Windows 10, and the fifth Edition of Inkscape.
Is there any way to change such a group of objects into text, so that "Hello" is again text, which allows me to do some changes? As far as I understood, this should somehow be possible (only if the status bar says “Path”, I cannot edit the text anymore).
I do not know if you are the original author of the svg.
When svgs are distributed, it common to covert text to paths to avoid problems if the end user does not have that font installed.
if it is left as text, the font would be substituted for whatever the closest match is on the end users system.
You cannot easily covert paths back to text. However, there are sites such as font squirrel which can recognise the font used if you want to recreate the text.
Or use Extensions > Arrange > Deep Ungroup… if you have lots of nested groups that you want to ungroup at once.
On most versions there's also a button on the toolbar to ungroup - though this seems to have gone AWOL (along with a lot of other useful buttons) on my copy of 1.1beta.
Edit: My bad. The group/ungroup and other buttons were missing as a result of a local change I made when looking into someone's report of missing zoom buttons (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1910), and is not a general problem with 1.1beta.
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Hi all,
I am completely new to Inkscape. Currently I am having some trouble with something that might be a minor issue (hopefully).
I want to edit already existing text in a SVG file. When clicking on the text to select it, the status bar says “Group of x objects”. So every letter is saved as one object, and the entire word is made out of several objects (for instance “Hello” is saved as a group of 5 objects). I can not make any changes to the text (like increasing font size, italics and so on). I am using Windows 10, and the fifth Edition of Inkscape.
Is there any way to change such a group of objects into text, so that "Hello" is again text, which allows me to do some changes? As far as I understood, this should somehow be possible (only if the status bar says “Path”, I cannot edit the text anymore).
I hope you can help me out.
Best wishes
I do not know if you are the original author of the svg.
When svgs are distributed, it common to covert text to paths to avoid problems if the end user does not have that font installed.
if it is left as text, the font would be substituted for whatever the closest match is on the end users system.
You cannot easily covert paths back to text. However, there are sites such as font squirrel which can recognise the font used if you want to recreate the text.
Also, if the text has been converted to paths in Inkscape.
Path>Object to pathProvided the group has not been 'ungrouped' there should still be a reference to the original font used in the style section of that group.
If you open the svg in a text editor :
<garia-label="Hello Testing"
id="text112"
style="font-size:10.5833px;line-height:1.25;font-family:'Lohit Devanagari';-inkscape-font-specification:'Lohit Devanagari';stroke-width:0.264583">
The font name should still be present until it is ungrouped.
Ok thanks for your fast reply. So it seems that I have to recreate the text.
I created these svg plots in R by myself and would like to add some changes afterwards.
Best wishes
How do you ungroup a group of objects?
@Smashlee Ctrl + Shift + G will ungroup (or go to menu Objects > Ungroup).
Or right-click on the group and select Ungroup.
Or use Extensions > Arrange > Deep Ungroup… if you have lots of nested groups that you want to ungroup at once.
On most versions there's also a button on the toolbar to ungroup
- though this seems to have gone AWOL (along with a lot of other useful buttons) on my copy of 1.1beta.Edit: My bad. The group/ungroup and other buttons were missing as a result of a local change I made when looking into someone's report of missing zoom buttons (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1910), and is not a general problem with 1.1beta.
Are you talking about these in Inkscape 1.1-alpha (17bc9184, 2021-03-28)?
Yes, I edited my post a few minutes after I sent it to clarify that it's not a general problem with 1.1beta.
There's a setting in the Preferences->Tools: "Treat groups as a single object". Never touched is so I can't say if this may help or not.
Cheers