Hello! I have a doubt about text handling in Krita. Fortunately text tool, and vector tools in general work great, but I'm not sure if there's a way to adjust kerning or line spacing in text forms.

With the standard add shape> Text option there are many options to adjust bleeding, text align, size and style, but I can't find a way to set a specific line spacing or kerning value, and it's the same for the artistic text tool.

I'm sorry but you are right: setting kerning and spacing is not (yet) supported.

Given that one of Krita's use cases is comic artists, I'm wondering if it would be worth putting up a GSoC proposal to get Krita's vector tools up to par for comic lettering, inking, frame borders etc. Some of the items could well benefit Karbon as well (like Kerning), while many could be as simple as bringing pre-existing tools into Krita (for example create path and modify path tools, which imho would be much more useful than freehand path and calligraphy).

It would probably be more of a proposal based around a whole collection of smaller items than one big feature, but it's in alignment with our use cases and it's an area that's been missing the love somewhat compared to the rest of Krita.

Yes, definitely. We had something like that on the ideas page last year -- for this year we'd need to dust it off and put it up.

I doubt that could be done in a gsoc project. This would require a major rewrite of the artistic text shape. Qt can't be used for that.

Definitvely it's a very useful feature to be fully implemented. At this time I know there are artists that use Gimp to create comics, but the lack of support for CMYK reduces it's viability to create print ready projects, and I'm saying this because I worked in a newspaper and I've seen how critical is this feature.

On the other hand Krita has the CMYK base support, at least for raster layers, and that solely fact makes it the very first app in linux ready to do comic-book production, the only thing holding it to compete against software like Manga Studio is advanced text handling, something that Gimp does already have.

Is understandable that the text handling is not considered a priority at this time, as there are a few things left to fix with the painting features before they become 100% stable (and painting is the core of Krita). However I'm really looking forward for it, when it gets implemented, at least I won't miss Photoshop for comics in Linux.

I'll refresh this topic, is adding kerning planned during text tool rework this year?