On 3/14/07, Mazin <mazin@...1692...> wrote:
I intended this to be functional for moving multiple individual objects. Your technique would be useful (when scale proportionally is added) for multiple clones, but I thought this up after making this piece: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50015139/ I had to arrange all of the little pieces of text manually, because they're all different. But every piece involved at least a move and rotate, and usually a scale operation.
Well, first of all, transforming object is a lot faster if you use keys: <>, [], and arrow keys instead of dragging handles. I use the keys much more frequently than mouse.
For this specific use case, however, still much better would be to enable the Text tool to draw (perhaps with some modifier) text-on-path. Like a hybrid of Pencil and Text tools, with the added option that the text fits to the length of the path by scaling font size. This would also let you create curved text lines easily.