2012/9/11 Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...>:
- Warped text is too specific. This is achievable by combining normal
text with envelope deformation. There's actually an envelope deformation LPE already present in Inkscape. If it doesn't work with text, it's a technical problem in Inkscape.
Yes, if you convert it to paths. This is about keeping the text as text. It comes out of a question raised about how text should be deformed when on a path.
There's nothing preventing Inkscape (or SVG vector effects, for that matter) from treating text as a path when necessary, while still keeping it editable as text. In fact, at the moment we convert everything to paths.
I think you should also mention that at the moment 0.49 is not usable for images which contain bitmaps, as Cairo still does not implement bitmap downscaling.
Will do so. (Any workaround planned?)
No workaround at the moment, unfortunately. This is a problem that must be fixed in Cairo. I investigated how it could be fixed without modifying Cairo, but all the ideas I've come up with turned out to be dead ends.
Regards, Krzysztof