Additionally, the border that outlined the artboard always displayed on top of any portions of my designs that spilled off the artboard. Perhaps this is simply because I was used to Illustrator’s artboard set-up (shown in the top portion of the photo), which included a dark gray background for all of the areas that weren’t on the artboard, and a white background for areas that were on the artboard. That will signal an opening up of a whole new world of opportunities for FOSS design! Cheers.As a longtime Adobe Illustrator user, the toughest part of transitioning to Inkscape was opening the program and seeing an all-white canvas staring back at me. The upside is, that even Adobe is in on the dev of this standard and when they eventually and inevitably nail this, programs like Illustrator will likely conform to it. I hope it helps and sorry for the history lesson and what I'll bet is a less than satisfying conclusion for your purposes. The author is the main 'delegate' from Inkscape to the W3 consortium's SVG Working Group. Here's a handy link to an overview of where things stand with SVG and text handling This becomes challenging when you take into account things like how text aligns, leads, kerns, spacing, fills, along, over or under paths and such you can see how it becomes a bit of a Pandora's box. svg is valid, human readable and editable XML and so Inkscape, using SVG must translate from what is essentially Adobe Postscript (proprietary) language to valid XML. It's essentially encoded into a proprietary format. ai file with a text editor you get a wall of unreadable garbage text. Adobe, being Adobe can do whatever it wants on its own and so the solution for text handling they use in AI has no needs for standardization with the SVG spec.Īs you probably have seen, when you open an. There's a few annual gatherings of stakeholders (including Inkscape, Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Qt etc) that try and work on the standard to get this right.

I think the problem currently has more to do with the text handling parts of the SVG spec its self than with a shortcoming of Inkscape. Text in Inkscape is a little wonky in so far as bringing in text from other vector apps is concerned.

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