On 5/30/07, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
Feature idea.
Could this sort of an idea be adapted to Inkscape? Say you have some text, you convert it to a path, maybe add some nodes. Then you surround it with a box that has a user definable number of nodes per side. If you grab one of those nodes, and drag it, it reacts with a certain number of nodes in the text path, dragging them like a magnet.
With something like this, you could flex and bend an object however you wanted.
The node sculptinghttp://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Editing.html#Paths-Node-Sculptingfeature of the node tool in the current release of Inkscape kind of does this. Although it's probably a little more detailed in it's operation than what you're after.