• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT INKSCAPE
• ABOUT SVG
• THE INKSCAPE INTERFACE
• WORKING WITH FILES
• TOOLBOX
• SELECT TOOL
• NODE TOOL
• TWEAK TOOL
• ZOOM TOOL
• RECTANGLE TOOL
• 3D BOX TOOL
• ELLIPSE TOOL
• STAR TOOL
• SPIRAL TOOL
• PENCIL TOOL
• PEN TOOL
• CALLIGRAPHY TOOL
• BUCKET FILL TOOL
• TEXT TOOL
• CONNECTOR TOOL
• GRADIENT TOOL
• DROPPER TOOL
• PATHS
• MODIFY PATH
• TEXT
• STYLING TEXT
• TEXT EFFECTS
• TEXT AND PATHS
• MULTIPLE OBJECT OPERATIONS
• COPY, CLONE, & DUPLICATE
• CLIP AND MASK
• POSITIONING OBJECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ALIGN AND DISTRIBUTE
• ORGANISING OBJECTS
• LAYERS
• GROUPING
• STYLING OBJECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• FILL AND STROKE
• STROKE STYLE
• COLOR PALETTE
• LIVE PATH EFFECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• GEARS
• PATTERN ALONG PATH
• KNOT
• SVG FILTERS
• INTRODUCTION
• ADVANCED
• COLOR MANAGEMENT
• GENERATE TEMPLATE
• TUTORIALS
• INSTALLING ON WINDOWS
• CREATING ICONS
• APPENDICES
• CREDITS

Text Effects

Writing text often requires the repetition of the same operations. The Effect > Text menu can do some of them automatically.

Lorem Ipsum Example

In the example below a standard latin text taken from Cicero is insterted into a text frame. This is useful in cases when a text placeholder is required (e.g. webdesign).

 

Replace Text

Replace Text simply replaces the text written in the first field of the dialog by the text written in the second one.

 

Sentence Case

Sentence Case replaces lower case characters by capitals ine the beginning of every sentence.

 

Title Case

Capitalizes first letter of each word.

 

UPPER CASE

Capitalizes all letters.

 

fLIP cASE

Reverses letter case, so that all capitals become lower case, and all lower case letters become upper case letters.

 

lower case

All the letters  become lower case.

 

rANdOm CasE 

Arbitrarily toggles letter case in the whole text.