It would be nice if there was a way to type text inside a vector speech bubble in a way that is responsive to its shape. I mean that the text box would start a new line on its own when necessary, without crossing the balloon border. I tried a related pugin already but it’s limited to only two speech bubbles shapes. It would be very comfortable if we could responsively enclose text into any vector drawing without having to preview or resize the text box. Thanks
What do you mean by ‘without crossing the bubbles’ border’? If you want the text to not overflow to the outside of the bubble, I’d try to clip the text layer onto the bubble layer using inherit alpha. But I’m not sure if I want to do that cause I’d usually just expand the bubble to match with the text.
If what you want is to auto align the text to the speech bubbles’ center like CSP does, it’s not implemented in krita yet. You can technically align it by using Arrange docker, but it’s not automatically done.
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Yes, that’s what I mean. Sorry, I’m not a native speaker of English so my word choice could be strange.
Thanks for the tips, I’ll try them in the meantime. But my suggestion for Krita developers is exactly that they made text to auto-align to the speech bubble.
I tried both of your tips. The inherit alpha method doesn’t work with text, I tried both to clip it to a layer with a vector balloon or a raster one. As for the Arrange docker, it helps a little bit with justifying text (which can be already done in the text editor window) but all in all I find it more intuitive to just use the transform tool on the text box. But I’ll leave it at that because this is not the troubleshooting section and I don’t want my posts to be removed as off-topic. I already have a similar thread in the support area.
I don’t know if “Lazy Text Tool(Prototype)” plugin (can find it in the forum) can do such thing, before krita did its native text tool refector.
PS: Seems inkscape can also do such things? (at about 0:44)
(I remember have seen a better showcase, but can’t find it now)
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Hey, yeah I’m looking into that plugin though in the related article it says it has no particular spacing features, only justification (that’s already in the new text tool). But I may give it a try if nothing else works.
As for Inkscape, in all the tutorials I watched people had to manually resize the text box to adapt it to the speech bubble, but maybe they didn’t know something. I’ll watch the video you linked and see if it may be a workaround, though it’s not ideal having to move to another software, reason why I’m suggesting this feature to developers. Thank you for your suggestions, if they work I’ll post the solutions on my other thread in the support section.
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There’s a krita text tool rewrite going on, I guess it would be possible when it finish? 
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Yay! Looking forwards to it.
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