-----Original Message----- From: George Farris [mailto:farrisg@...289...] Sent: 28 May 2010 22:38 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Expanding text
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:37 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote:
It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and
distort it
accordingly. Not each letter as happens now.
That was the old behaviour. You can get the same result by doing an ungroup (ctrl u) then a combine (ctrl k).
I still seem to get many nodes per letter instead of treating the line of text as a single object. Is this part of .47 or do I need .48?
You can link a text object as pattern to the 'pattern along path' LPE. Then, you can stack the envelope deformation LPE on top of it, to shape the text. The attached file shows how this works. This is sort of a workaround for the inability to apply LPEs directly on texts. Warning: it is a bit slow but... it does work pretty cool :-) I guess we should start working on enabling LPEs directly on text.
This functionality is present in 0.47.
Ciao, Johan
