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Is Inkscape alright at anything typography related? Anonymous 11/03/25(Mon)13:47:05 No.462615 [Reply]▶
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I'd like to use it for booklets. Does it render text correctly? What are its main issues in this application?
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>>462615
it works but you can never import files from another program without it messing up text format and other things.
and exported pdf turns out shit all the time. have to find the one single export setting that kinda works. at least in old versions.
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>>462623
>it works but you can never import files from another program without it messing up text format and other things.
Scribus has the exact same problem but it's even worse because their devs just say that all other programs are doing formatting wrong and they do it the RIGHT way completely ignoring the fact that their shit program literally eats parts of the imported data without telling the author about it. So in the end you end up with missing parts.
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>>462623
My PDFs turn out great but I'm not a pro. I had one instance when I had a problem when I wrapped text around a circle and exported to PDF, it drew a thin circle at the base of the text, which I fixed by combining the text and the original circle (a target logo) into the same object, or something, or a bitmap maybe.
>>462615
It does render text correctly yes. But that's a weird question.
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>>462615
It renders text as it shows. Maybe you may want to fiddle with kerning, but if it's off enough to bother you, you were probably going to complain about it.
I use it for creating TTRPG character sheets, trifolded A4 handouts and libreoffice backgrounds and it'0s my goto tool to do so. I know how to use it and it does what I want, the rest is about knowing what and doing it.
It doesn't mess up things and once you get the hang of it, you can import pages from PDFs and dismember it for the juicy parts.
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