Dear all,

how to do the captioned?

Thanks for any kind of help!

Rgds,

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Just keep in mind that using 'Flowed text' in Inkscape creates SVG documents that are not compatible with other SVG renderers like for example Firefox. This is because the way 'Flowed text' is currently implemented by Inkscape is not part of the SVG 1.1 specification and it has not yet been definitely decided how the standard for implementing flowed text will be in SVG 1.2.

So the warning in the Inkscape manual about using 'Flowed text' is very important:

Flowed text was a draft SVG 1.2 specification that will not in the end be adopted. The text is not likely to be viewable by other renderers. In addition, some programs will not render any of a file with flowed text (Squiggle, for example). You can convert the flowed text to a regular text object before saving to avoid this problem.

This also applies when using 'Text > Flow into Frame': SVG viewers like current Firefox 3.5.5 will not render the text in the frame, nor will any other SVG renderer based on 'Batik' (one of the reference SVG implementation for Inkscape).

Helpful!!

Thanks for many great comment about my newbie question!

~suv wrote:Just keep in mind that using 'Flowed text' in Inkscape creates SVG documents that are not compatible with other SVG renderers like for example Firefox. This is because the way 'Flowed text' is currently implemented by Inkscape is not part of the SVG 1.1 specification and it has not yet been definitely decided how the standard for implementing flowed text will be in SVG 1.2.

Wow. Never noticed that one. But there is no alternative if you want ... flowed, multi-line text, right? I use it in more drawings than not.

~suv wrote:Just keep in mind that using 'Flowed text' in Inkscape creates SVG documents that are not compatible with other SVG renderers like for example Firefox. This is because the way 'Flowed text' is currently implemented by Inkscape is not part of the SVG 1.1 specification and it has not yet been definitely decided how the standard for implementing flowed text will be in SVG 1.2.

Well, it has been definitely decided as far as SVG 1.2 Tiny goes, since that specification is now finished. SVG 1.2 Full will be a superset of SVG 1.2 Tiny, so it will use same method (the 'textArea' element), but probably with more options. I suppose SVG 1.2 Full could also include a second flowed text method, but that would seem a bit redundant.

Kjohrf wrote:Wow. Never noticed that one. But there is no alternative if you want ... flowed, multi-line text, right?

There's no alternative at present, but once you're finished you can use the Convert To Text command (on the Text menu) to make the text show up in other SVG viewers. But it won't be editable as flowed text then, so you may want to keep the original too.