Once you’re finished, grab the blue object and remove its fill color so that it’s no longer visible. For this example I simply copy and pasted an excerpt from the Inkscape Wikipedia Page. You can change the font, color, justification, line spacing, kerning, or anything else that you would normally edit on a text object. Now you can go ahead and edit the text however you’d like. This will flow the text into the blue object. Then, select both the text object and the blue shape and go to Text > Flow Into Frame. Once you’ve done that, go ahead and generate some text using the Text tool. Then take the remaining shape and perform Path > Simplify to ensure that the object isn’t too complex for the text function to work. Now we can subtract the green area by selecting both the blue and green objects and performing Path > Difference.

This is because we don’t want the text to run all the way to the edge of the subject we’d like there to be a little bit of space.

Before we subtract the green area, we’ll use the Dynamic Offset feature to give the subject some padding.

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