Inkscape insert text after importing pdf

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I am trying to edit text from a PDF file – but when I enter the new text, it jumbles it up. What do I need to do to fix this? For instance, below I wanted to insert Hourly into ‘Percent Maximum Concentration`.

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The path for the text object has:

  <g
         id="g10872">
        <g
           clip-path="url(#clipPath10878)"
           id="g10874">
          <text
             id="text10882"
             style="font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;font-family:Helvetica;-inkscape-font-specification:Helvetica;writing-mode:lr-tb;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none"
             transform="matrix(1,0,0,-1,115.27,141.72)">
            <tspan
               id="tspan10880"
               sodipodi:role="line"
               y="0"
               x="0 6.7870002 12.903 16.566 22.066 28.181999 34.298 37.355999 40.414001 49.577 55.693001 61.193001 63.634998 72.688004 78.804001 87.967003 91.025002 98.967003 105.083 111.199 116.699 122.815 128.931 131.989 135.54201 141.658 144.716 147.158 153.274">Percent Maximum Concentration</tspan>
          </text>

Answer

To restore normal editing functionality of text in tspan element, set the x-attribute of the tspan element to 0:

<tspan
      id="tspan10880"
      sodipodi:role="line"
      y="0"
      x="0">Percent Maximum Concentration</tspan>

Pdf text import - restore editing

  • Select internal importer during the import
  • Edit the xml using the Inkscape XML Editor Edit > XML Editor
  • Tested with inkscape 0.92.2

Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : James Thomas Durant , Answer Author : FWrnr

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