On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0700, Elwin Estle wrote:
I have downloaded InkScape 4.2 both the windows and linux versions. So far I really like it, very cool. But so far there is one feature that I just cannot seem to get to work: Text to Path. I draw the curve (bezier), I make some text, I select the text and the curve together with shift-click, I go up to the menu for text and select "text to path"...and absolutely nothing happens. I have read the insructions for this several times to see if I am missing something, but I am doing exactly what they tell me to do, and I get zip. This is one of the major reasons I was interested in this program. I get the same result with both win and linux versions.
One thing I found that would cause this is if I made the text as "flow-text" objects instead of "text" objects. This is confusing because the difference between these two kinds of objects seems so slight from a user perspective, but I can understand why it works like this from an implementational point of view.
If this is in fact the cause of the confusion, the fix is to select your flow-text object and go to Text -> Convert to text, and then put it on the curve. Also, in this case would you mind submitting a bug report about this confusing usability? Perhaps there is something simple that could be done to eliminate the confusion.
If it's not the case, report back here with a description of exactly what steps you're taking, and we'll work on sorting it out with you.
Thanks, Bryce