Does anyone else find Krita’s text tool difficult to use? I mean, maybe it’s just me, but I’ve watched a bunch of tutorials, which helped but I still find it difficult to use. Before I learned Krita, I used CorelDraw for everything, including text layouts.
The biggest drawback I have with Krita’s text is after you close the text box, the text on your canvas is no longer editable as text, as far as I can tell. I know you can move and resize it, and I assume you can re-color it, but I haven’t figured that out yet.
As of now, I just use Corel to do any text and export it as .png for use in Krita as a new imported layer.
I’m not complaining… I’m just wondering if Krita’s text tool is more capable than I’m aware and need to learn it better 
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Krita’s text tool, in the current version you are using, is something Krita has been suffering from for a long time, and therefore it is currently being completely reworked and rewritten.
This means that you will soon be able to edit the text directly on the canvas, that the text can adapt to existing shapes, speech bubbles for example, and many more improvements.
If you want to know more about this, read @wolthera’s Text Tool Thread about it.
If you want to try out the already finished parts of it, then download one of the Krita Next Nightlies, I recommend you use the portable version, because you can use it parallel to the installed version of Krita, but not at the same time, and it would then use the settings of your default installation, with everything you may have installed in it. So you would always remain in your familiar working environment with all the tools, only gaining a few new capabilities.
However, you have to be careful to save very often in between, because it’s not a fully tested developer version, and it might crash more often (although it hardly ever does for me), it’s just part of being honest about it. So always pay attention to this, otherwise there is a theoretical risk of losing a lot of work, when you could have taken precautions!
You can download the Windows versions from here, daily fresh with the newest additions:
The portable version is the ZIP-File at the bottom, you would have to unzip it to a folder where you have full read and write access, for instance your desktop, or your download folder, and after unzipping it, you will find three links in the root-directory of the unzipped portable Krita, double-click the one named krita.lnk to start the portable Krita (it is possible that you don’t see the file name extension lnk, that happens when you have not enabled to show file name extensions, but it works without seeing the extension, so simply double-click on the link-file krita).
Michelist
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No. The problem that made us avoid a full rewrite of it for years is that writing a text tool is very complex, and we tried to use pre-existing components to get around that, but that has proven to be not sufficient. I’m now in my third year of working on it, and still have a few months of work ahead of me.
If you’re going to test it, I do recommend keeping a copy of your resource folder: Right now the handling of fonts for the new text tool is very thorough and is using the resource system as it was designed, but unfortunately it exposed some bugs in the resource system. Which means that searching becomes really slow. Dmitry’s currently trying to solve that, but even when we have a fix, it only will work for 5.3 and beyond.
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If you double-click on your text with the text tool selected, it should reopen the text box! 
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@Corentin Cool! Thanks! 
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@Michelist @wolthera I’m looking forward to it!! Thank you
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Thank you wolthera for working on the text tool. I’ve been reading up on it, and it seems like a daunting task that has been going on for awhile.
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