On 9/14/07, DAVID GRESSETT <jdgressett@...483...> wrote:
I have a somewhat difficult graphics job to do in collaboration with another graphic artist who is using Corel Draw X3. I am using Inkscape as one of several tools to make up for some deficiencies in Corel Draw. One problem that Corel Draw has and that Inkscape shares (as far as I can tell, correct me if I am wrong) is that it is not very good at putting text on a curve. It can arrange the letters appropriately, and turn them to various angles so that the baseline of a character is tangent to the curve. What it cannot do is bend the characters to make them precisely follow the curve.
For that, what you need is not text on path but path on path. In Inkscape it can be done by the Path along path extension, as demonstrated here (lower right):
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-patternalongpath.png