I have about 70 layouts of grape vines and fruit trees for a six-year period that were made in Serif DrawPlus X8 on Windows 7. Unfortunately, this application was abandoned and orphaned over a year ago, so I need to convert them so they can be edited on Windows 10.
DrawPlus can export them as a basic SVG files. However, this alters the text boxes. A text box that has say 8 lines of text, upon export is broken up into 8 separate text boxes. This is a MAJOR issue for me in converting all these documents. If I create a new text box with a dozen lines and save it in Inkscape, when I reopen it, Inkscape does maintain it as one text box. The problem is in the text boxes created in DrawPlus that were exported as SVG.
I looked though all the menus in Inkscape and cannot find anything that will convert say a dozen text boxes into one.
Admittedly, I am very new to Inkscape.
Does anyone know an efficient way to do this? Cutting and pasting hundreds of tiny text boxes is not an option.
Not much can be done unless you can export other formats to try.
One method to lessen the effort is to use a copy saved as PDF. The pdf text can be copied as a block and pasted into a textbox in Inkscape. Not automagic, but less work.
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I have about 70 layouts of grape vines and fruit trees for a six-year period that were made in Serif DrawPlus X8 on Windows 7. Unfortunately, this application was abandoned and orphaned over a year ago, so I need to convert them so they can be edited on Windows 10.
DrawPlus can export them as a basic SVG files. However, this alters the text boxes. A text box that has say 8 lines of text, upon export is broken up into 8 separate text boxes. This is a MAJOR issue for me in converting all these documents. If I create a new text box with a dozen lines and save it in Inkscape, when I reopen it, Inkscape does maintain it as one text box. The problem is in the text boxes created in DrawPlus that were exported as SVG.
I looked though all the menus in Inkscape and cannot find anything that will convert say a dozen text boxes into one.
Admittedly, I am very new to Inkscape.
Does anyone know an efficient way to do this? Cutting and pasting hundreds of tiny text boxes is not an option.
Attached is a sample file.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Don't think Inkscape can do this. 🤨 How much programming experience do you have? Maybe parse and modify the SVG XML document?
Not much can be done unless you can export other formats to try.
One method to lessen the effort is to use a copy saved as PDF. The pdf text can be copied as a block and pasted into a textbox in Inkscape. Not automagic, but less work.