On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:35 +0200, Joop B. Buker wrote:
We (my son and I) have followed the instructions on http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Effects-ModifyPath.html#Effects...
We used a text and a bounding box.
But after transformation the text is no longer horizontal but vertical. How can we change that behavior?
Draw your bounding box with the Bezier tool starting from the lower left corner. Draw in a clockwise direction. The order of the nodes in the bounding box path determines the orientation of the text. There is a small note in the book about this. I will emphasize this more in the next version of the book.
You can check which is the first node in your path by selecting the path with the node tool (but not selecting any particular node) and hitting the Tab key. (The Tab key cycles through the nodes of a path starting with the first node if no node is selected.)
Tav