Author Topic: Text boxes  (Read 6258 times)

August 31, 2016, 03:45:06 AM
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louiseS

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Hi there!

I'm trying to put together a poster that's quite text-heavy on Inkscape. One thing is driving me completely mad - I've figured out how to make text boxes, but there are some places where I want to, for instance, get the text to follow the contour of an image, or sit inside a triangle shape or something. Ie, I don't always want my text boxes to be box-shaped.

Is there any way at all of making this happen in Inkscape?

Thanks :-)

August 31, 2016, 05:49:28 AM
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louiseS

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On second thoughts, I've just discovered the 'flow into frame' button. For anyone else who's ever trying to do this same thing - select the text and the shape you want to fit it into, then click Text > Flow into frame. Voila.

August 31, 2016, 01:53:14 PM
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Moini

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'Text along Path' is another feature that might be of interest to you.

August 31, 2016, 03:06:46 PM
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Welcome to the forum!

I'm glad you solved your problem  :)
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