I sometimes make academic posters and I would love to make them in inkscape, however the text box functionality is preventing me from doing so.
In powerpoint, text boxes are a first class citizen. It is easy to place them, align them, etc. In inkscape it can be quite annoying to place text boxes inside rectangles.
To make inkscape text boxes behave the same, you would
Have a background rectangle. This rectangle has to have
8 resize handle bars, similar to a rectangle,
a nice amount of default padding
possibly some nice overflow behaviour.
A rectangle and text combined with 'fit to frame' sort of goes in the right direction, but it is lacking padding and overflow behaviour. It is also annoying to do when you need many textboxes.
This would have to somehow exist next to the normal text functionality, because for many areas of graphic design you don't need this background box.
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I sometimes make academic posters and I would love to make them in inkscape, however the text box functionality is preventing me from doing so.
In powerpoint, text boxes are a first class citizen. It is easy to place them, align them, etc. In inkscape it can be quite annoying to place text boxes inside rectangles.
To make inkscape text boxes behave the same, you would
A rectangle and text combined with 'fit to frame' sort of goes in the right direction, but it is lacking padding and overflow behaviour. It is also annoying to do when you need many textboxes.
This would have to somehow exist next to the normal text functionality, because for many areas of graphic design you don't need this background box.
Any thoughts?