Thank you all for your follow up. I contacted the author of the script meanwhile, so I hope he finds something here that makes his job easier. I've also asked a question on launchpad, because nobody answered I posted related bugs. It was like a maze at first but I guess this should be on rails now. ...

well just in case anyone is reading this.

http://fossies.org/windows/misc/inkscap ... ource.html

here's the source for the extension. anyone knowing more python than me, could modify this and get it running. Assigning a shortcut shouldn't be too hard.

As I've done already in another post, I'd like to raise my voice for text-related-functionality and note that, working with flowed-text-objects is sluggish compared with s imple-text-objects . Just give it a try, inserting a single character into such a box feels cumbersome. (Maybe not with 4GB RAM ...

I looked for this functionality all over the place, and it's not in the repo, nor anywhere else on the internet. The whole point is to quickly get individual text-objects that move freely or can be colored differently. Yes, splitting lines gives me too many objects sometimes, so splitting lines is n...

:tool_text: Yes, I understand inkscape wasn't built to be a text processor, but it's a pitty given that, for my needs, it's the best of all for this, inspite of the the performance issues which by the way, a lot worse in scribus. Having tried scribus and several other applications, I assure you I kn...