You just tick the writing systems which you use yourself, and the font drop-down will only show fonts that have full support for that language. Some systems have a lot of fonts specifically for showing foreign languages properly, but these might not be useful for you. This allows you to filter the selection of fonts in the editor by writing system. Comments are pieces of text that never get interpreted. This highlights XML comments, which are written as following. The format for highlighting value of attributes. For example, font-family, when it isn’t in the style tag is usually written as an attribute. The format for highlighting the attributes of the tag. text and tspan are examples of element names. The format for highlighting the element tag name. These highlights important characters like. Here you can configure the syntax highlighting for the SVG source. Whether you want both the Rich Text Editor and the SVG Source Editor, or only one of either. The settings that can be configured for the text editor. Settings Settings…Ĭalls up the text-editor settings dialog. Align Right Ctrl + Alt + RĪlign the selected paragraph to the right. Align Center Ctrl + Alt + CĬenter the selected paragraph. Align LeftĪlign the selected paragraph to the left. Possibilities are… Light, Normal, Bold, and Black. Sets the font weight a little more specifically. Strike-ThroughĪdds a strike-through text decoration. Pops up a dialog that allows you to search for special characters that are difficult to type in with your keyboard. Insert Special Character… Alt + Shift + C Pops up a dialog with two inputs: The string you wish to find, and the string you wish to replace it with. Searches for the last text using the last search key. Searches for the next text using the last search key. Pops up a window with an input to find the given text in the active editor. Deselect Ctrl + Shift + Aĭeselect any selected text. Copy Ctrl + CĬopy selected text to the clipboard. Cut Ctrl + XĬut selected text to the clipboard. Redo the last undone action in the text editor. Save current edits to the text on canvas. Press Save as you’re done with your edits to preview them on canvas. Do note that not all attributes and properties are converted back to the rich text editor, so do be careful when switching back. If you are a little bit more familiar with SVG text, you can directly edit the SVG source. If you are unfamiliar with the way SVG text works, use the rich text tab, it will allow you to edit the text as you see it, at the cost of not having all functionality. When you click that the text editor window will appear.
In the tool options there is an Edit Text button. Select the text with the shape selection tool (first tool). Once your text is created, you can edit the text from two ways: You will need to drag a rectangle on the canvas to create the text area. There are a few options in the tool options if you want to customize how the text will be adding. You can use the Text tool to first create a text box. The Text Editor has two tabs: Rich text and SVG source. Text Editor ¶Ī small window for all your text editing needs. This can be quickly invoked with either pressing the Enter key or double- click + shortcut on the shape. This will summon the text editor for the currently selected shape. The letter spacing used by newly created texts. This is called text-anchor because SVG 1.1’s multiline text only uses text-anchor, and this is a slight bit different than text-align (and also the reason justify isn’t available at the moment). This allows you to align text to the left, center it, or to the right. Anchor/Align text to the left/middle/right
It therefore will stay proportionally the same size if you increase or decrease canvas dpi. It is in pts (points), which is a common standard for fonts that is measured 72 points per inch.
The letter-size used by newly created texts. The letter type used by newly created texts. This contains features with which to create new texts, the following items are available: Font on a highlighted text will select it as the active text. Hovering over other text shapes will highlight their bounding box. When releasing a default text will be created and the text editor window will pop-up. You use it by doing + drag to create a rectangular selection. This tool allows you to add text to your artwork.