Text Disappears

Asked by Malcolm New

I add text and save the SVG but when I display it the text disappears. When I load it back into Inkscape it reappears. What is happening?

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Mc (mc...) said :
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If you means "flowed text" (the one you do with a drag&drop to get a text zone, then type, not single click+type), then it's to be expected :
https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#Flowed_text_doesn%27t_show_up_in_exported_file

The solution is to select the text and use the menu item "text->convert to text" to make it regular text, then save, and it should then show up in other renderers.

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Malcolm New (plus-d) said :
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Sorry did that and nothing reappeared. Cannot seem to add any more text at all!

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Malcolm New (plus-d) said :
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Sorry I've sorted it. I wasn't selecting the text but its container. Flowed text is very confusing and it doesn't even work!