Kirta Text tool (adjusting text area, text justification)

[Lennox_Williams]

I really wish for an option to justify texts and to transform the area in which the text is placed so i dont have to manually hit the enter keys for new lines.

I use Krita to design book covers and i frequently run into issues with the text tool. Having to hit the enter key everytime for a new line when making the back cover blurb takes a lot of time and if the costumer wishes for another font size or updates the blur, it’s the same all over again.
Also the norm for dust jackets is justified text (and costumers whish for it on back blurbs, too), so you either have so transform the layer to a paint layer and space the words manually or use another software ro make that text (which brings scaling issues, blurry text and all that nice stuff)

beeing able to adjust the text are manually would save a lot of time on it selfe and the text justification would be the cherry on top.

Thank you

[Grum999]

Hi

You can try this plugin:

Lazy Text Tool(Prototype) – A plugin that helps you type

Let me say this so everyone is clear, I have never written python before(other than a minor change to an existing plugin). Add to the fact that a lot of this code has been rushed with little to no testing, please keep your expectations in check! TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Here is what kinda works Font: Typing Text – yes Colors – yes Fonts – yes Font styling – yes Line and alignment: Letter spacing – yes Alignment – yes Other: Stroke – yes (same svg 1.1 though) Canvas scrolling - yes…

Maybe it can help you

On my side, all things that requires precise text and page layout, I use Scribus that who is more suitable for publishing work.

Grum999

[Emmerilla]

I agree. The text editor right now isnt very useable in its current state. It would be better, if we could just change the text size like we can change the size of a drawn image

[exequiel_vega]

It’s been a long time, but this topic needs to be revived haha. Really, just adding these basic text features would make Krita so much more useful. In my case, I make trading cards, and it would be great to be able to justify the monster description in a pre-set text box. Arranging it manually really takes a lot of time.

[exequiel_vega]

Hey, I think if you want the developers to add this feature, you can vote using the “vote” button at the top of this thread. It looks like 20 votes are needed. I already voted.

[kaichi1342]

There is not much need for it here anymore at least in this implementation.
The whole text engine have been rewritten.

You can instead reply and contribute to this thread ;

Text Tool Thread

Hey everyone, The text layout rewrite branch finally got merged! You should be able to test it in the next nightly build. Keep in mind that the text tool by itself has not changed just yet. Similarly, if you find bugs, please report them to bugs.kde.org under the product Krita, in the component Text. State of Text I’ve spend the last year completely rewriting the text layout code, with a technical blogpost here. This code handles things like taking a text with markup, selecting and loading fon…

The good news is that the revamped text tool will be in Krita 6.0 which is now in beta 2.

it maybe just one more beta, and maybe a few release candidate before the full release.

You can test the new text tool in Krita 6.0 and check if the Justify is now working if not feel free to reply there, it was started by Wolthera who is the main developer of this specific feature.

[exequiel_vega]

thank you so much!!! I´ll go there!

[kaichi1342]

My bad i miss one info, its gonna be on Krita 5.3 . so you can also use that to test. ^-^