06-17-2018, 04:23 PM
(06-17-2018, 10:34 AM)Espermaschine Wrote:why would i, when i found something that doesn't make me comb through old help forums and beg for assistance to do a simple thing that every single graphics tool with text handling should be able to easily and quickly do? i downloaded inkscape, on your advice. i tried it. i couldn't figure out how to do what i wanted. i looked it up, watched 3 youtube videos, still couldn't get it to do what i wanted. but guess what... scribus did exactly what i needed, and i didn't have to look up anything at all because the tools were intuitive and easy to find. i don't have anything against inkscape, i'm glad it works for some people. but for my specific needs, it is either inadequate or hard enough to figure out how to use that it wasn't helpful. i've worked in prepress graphic design as well as web design. gimp has been around for AGES. there's no excuse for it just not doing something so basic. it's shameful. you can't tell me i'm the only person to ever run into this problem. i'm sure the developers have been aware of this issue since probably the mid-90s. if they can't be bothered, neither can i. i'm not going to fight a program to get it to do what i want.(06-17-2018, 12:06 AM)burn Wrote: just tried it, inkscape's vertical text is NOT what i'm looking for.
look again