If you are a little bit more familiar with SVG text, you can directly edit the SVG source.

If you are unfamiliar with the way SVG text works, use the rich text tab, it will allow you to edit the text as you see it, at the cost of not having all functionality. When you click that the text editor window will appear. In the tool options there is an Edit Text button. Select the text with the shape selection tool (first tool). Once your text is created, you can edit the text from two ways: You will need to drag a rectangle on the canvas to create the text area. There are a few options in the tool options if you want to customize how the text will be adding. You can use the Text tool to first create a text box. The Text Editor has two tabs: Rich text and SVG source. Text Editor ¶Ī small window for all your text editing needs. This can be quickly invoked with either pressing the Enter key or double- click + shortcut on the shape. This will summon the text editor for the currently selected shape. The letter spacing used by newly created texts. This is called text-anchor because SVG 1.1’s multiline text only uses text-anchor, and this is a slight bit different than text-align (and also the reason justify isn’t available at the moment). This allows you to align text to the left, center it, or to the right. Anchor/Align text to the left/middle/right It therefore will stay proportionally the same size if you increase or decrease canvas dpi. It is in pts (points), which is a common standard for fonts that is measured 72 points per inch. The letter-size used by newly created texts. The letter type used by newly created texts. This contains features with which to create new texts, the following items are available: Font on a highlighted text will select it as the active text. Hovering over other text shapes will highlight their bounding box. When releasing a default text will be created and the text editor window will pop-up.

You use it by doing + drag to create a rectangular selection. We will update the text tool in future versions of Krita. For now, if you want to use features like inline-size for wrapping or writing-mode:vertical-rl for vertical text, you will need to use the SVG source editor.

The text layout got reworked in Krita 5.2, however the text tool itself has not yet received an update.

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