Feature request: increase and decrease font size with toolbar buttons or keystrokes

[John Doe]

Right now, it's possible to change the size of selected text in inkscape.

But while changing the kerning with the Alt-arrow bindings is a breeze, changing the fontsize is unpractical and time consuming. You have to select the size box next to the font name and increase/decrease it manually.

And again, and again. It's very hard to get incrementally to the visual impact you're searching.

One other interesting application of that size flexibility would be in making small caps texts easier and faster to lay out.

I propose two keybindings to increase/decrease fontsize. cltr + and ctrl - are the de facto standard ones, but ctrl-alt-up and ctrl-alt-down could also make sense, following the kerning keybinding scheme.

One single button down would increase/decrease by one point/pixel the fontsize.

A prolongued keydown after an initial lag (approx 500 or 700 ms) would start increasing/decreasing the fontsize one point every 200 or 300 ms until keyup.

In alternative two toolbar buttons with the same characteristics could be implemented.

Open/LIbre Office (like word and pretty much every other word processor around) got toolbar button with that functionality, and I attach a screenshot showing their icons.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

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Tip: with currently available UI options, to quickly change the font size (still limited to the preset values): hover with the mouse pointer over the font size input box on the controls bar and scroll the mouse wheel (don't click into the entry box, else the mouse pointer gets kind of stuck there and has to be moved out explicitly).
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[su_v (suv-lp)]

> One single button down would increase/decrease by
> one point/pixel the fontsize.

With current GUI options, the font size can only be defined in px aka SVG user units (specifying a different unit requires one to resort to the built-in XML Editor where the size in custom units will be automatically converted to px). In case that RFE bug #168164 gets implemented, the steps of such an option (button or keyboard shortcut) should probably refer to the unit used to display the font size in the GUI.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related earlier RFE:
Bug #171438 “more actions to help with Freehand compatibility”