no luck, just tried that (on both methods) but neither gave any different result.

thanks for the suggestion tho!

Bummer.....so the first method works perfectly in inkscape but is misinterpreted when I import into kdenlive (the bounding box regains the overlapping box transparency problem and the second method also works perfectly in inkscape but doesn't show up at all in kdenlive and in both methods the text s...

wow, that's a tutorial on pretty much exactly what I wanted to do, thanks!

haha, yes that worked, thank you thank you, I knew there must be a way to do it but googling didn't turn anything up, now I'll pretty much be able to open my svg, type the subtltle, and close it again, a very smooth workflow (I have a lot of these to make) - awesome!

thanks and have a great day!

wait a minute, I think I've got it: stroke and fill in black then adjust Opacity

Brilliant!....I thought, but when I tried it I hit another snag: my box isn't actually grey, it's partially transparent black (so that whatever is going on behind the subtitles can show through) so when I reduce the transparency of the stroke, because the stroke overlaps the fill (half of the stroke...

thanks for the detailed response, that worked! However, the gray box is very tight to the text, is there any way to give some space between the text and the edge of the gray (the bounding box)?

(I just tried to attach an image but I can't see that option, maybe because I've just joined)

Hi, Pretty new to inkscape, thoroughly enjoying it, but I've hit a snag and can't find anything via gooooogle: I'm creating subtitles for video and I want to create a master subtitle .svg that I then edit the text of and the grey rectangle behind the subtitle (that supplies a bit of contrast to make...