I sometimes make academic posters and I would love to make them in inkscape, however the text box functionality is preventing me from doing so.
In powerpoint, text boxes are a first class citizen. It is easy to place them, align them, etc. In inkscape it can be quite annoying to place text boxes inside rectangles.
To make inkscape text boxes behave the same, you would
Have a background rectangle. This rectangle has to have
8 resize handle bars, similar to a rectangle,
a nice amount of default padding
possibly some nice overflow behaviour.
A rectangle and text combined with 'fit to frame' sort of goes in the right direction, but it is lacking padding and overflow behaviour. It is also annoying to do when you need many textboxes.
This would have to somehow exist next to the normal text functionality, because for many areas of graphic design you don't need this background box.
In this video the behaviours of powerpoint textboxes are shown. The video you show comes quite close, but is missing crucial points. I hope it is clear from these two videos what I mean.
Beginners' Questions Text boxes more like powerpoint
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I sometimes make academic posters and I would love to make them in inkscape, however the text box functionality is preventing me from doing so.
In powerpoint, text boxes are a first class citizen. It is easy to place them, align them, etc. In inkscape it can be quite annoying to place text boxes inside rectangles.
To make inkscape text boxes behave the same, you would
A rectangle and text combined with 'fit to frame' sort of goes in the right direction, but it is lacking padding and overflow behaviour. It is also annoying to do when you need many textboxes.
This would have to somehow exist next to the normal text functionality, because for many areas of graphic design you don't need this background box.
Any thoughts?
I think I can't help much about it... but a demonstration would be helpful, at least to me to undersand... I'm curious about.
Just to be sure, your doubt doesn't be solve with this so: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yb16CGGQaao
Hi Samuel, thanks for your response.
In this video the behaviours of powerpoint textboxes are shown. The video you show comes quite close, but is missing crucial points. I hope it is clear from these two videos what I mean.
Yeah, very interesting. I try a little and seems odd that behavior
I think you should use your video and submitting a detailed bug report: https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/
at least if is indeed a bug or not, at least you can already ask a new feature to be more like the powerpoint