Both look the same.Īnd if you Text tool again and try to edit it as a text for replacing it with other text or for changing its style or font type then you can see it is not editable, in fact, the text tool cursor blinks on a new place for typing other text. Now if you select this path with the Select tool then you cannot determine any difference between the previous text letter E and the converted letter E. You can also press Shift + Ctrl + C as its shortcut key.Īnd it will convert your selected text or letter into the path. In this list, you will find the Object to Path option so click on it. Now I will take the Select and Transform Object tool from the tool panel.Īfter selecting your desired text go to Path. You can resize text after converting it into the path or can take size from the font size list before converting, it depends on you.

Here my chosen font has only italic style so I will go with it. You can also change font style such as regular, italic, or bold. So I will choose my desired font type from the font type list. Because once you convert it into a path then it will not editable as text after that, it means you cannot change font type, font style, also typed letter or text, and other properties related to the text. The important thing is to have fun while learning.Before converting it into a path we should keep in mind that what we will do after converting it and according to that choose your desired font type from the Font type panel of the text tool. Experiment with various filters to see what other effects you can achieve. This exercise should have given you a taste of some effects that you can put on text in Inkscape.

One nice feature of using Inkscape is that an Inkscape image can be resized without loss of image quality. Though I like the lightening effect in GIMP better, I like the smoothness of the letters in Inkscape better. This is due to the difference between using a normal overlay versus a soft light overlay. If you compare the two final images, you'll see that the Inkscape highlight looks like a haze over the letters, whereas the GIMP highlight looks like the letters are simply lighter.

The method in Inkscape described above has two fewer steps than the method I used in GIMP.

How to select text in inkscape