Hrm, in my experience Inkscape doesn't kern at all including lower case letters. Here is my font with kerning in OpenOffice Writer: http://grab.by/2dBa and the same font at the same point size in Inkscape: http://grab.by/2dBo Both are lower case "a" and "w" (it is a comic font so...

Hi hjalle, I actually am aware of the manual kerning feature of Inkscape. Thanks for giving me those links, though. However, as I said in my original post, I letter comics which means a lot of text has to be inputted into each page of every project I work on. Thus, manual kerning is not exactly a gr...

Hello everyone, I recently created a new font and, with the creation of the font, my attention was brought toward whether or not Inkscape kerned text and/or used ligatures built into the font. I am a freelance letterer - I letter comic books - and I have started doing all of my work in Inkscape. As ...

@kelan: Sorry for taking so long to reply, but I actually was able to get the effect to work properly! Thanks, mate, that's definitely going to save me time in the future. @coatit: Yeah, that's a great tutorial, though it doesn't deal with thought or electric balloons (well, it does show a very basi...

Hi kelan, I've been playing around with your method, and it seems I must be doing something incorrectly. Every time I get to the final step where you move the line path up or down to form the thought or electric balloon I get something such as this: http://grab.by/1EjR which forms from this: http://...

Thanks for the tip, tomh! That's actually a much better-looking method than what I've been doing. Hrm, That would be pretty nice, though, if this could be scripted, or at least a Bloat & Pucker menu analogue could be added to a future version of Inkscape. It definitely seems like this would be a...

Hi everyone, As a freelance letterer, I am currently using Inkscape as my primary tool when it comes to lettering pages of art for comics. Lettering in Inkscape is definitely on par with lettering in Illustrator (the number one software being used by most comic book letterers) and I can't imagine th...

Thanks for the heads-up, macti! The solution on your thread seems to be a permanent one. Thanks a bunch, I've been looking for a solution to this problem for the last few weeks.

Hi all, I joined the forums because I wanted to offer a solution to getting Wacom tablets (possibly all tablets, but I only own a Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet) to work properly with Inkscape. In my experience with Inkscape and a tablet, you can get it to work somewhat, but minus certain functionality suc...