Came across a string of text on a book cover where the first letter leans to the left, the last leans to the right, the middle character is upright and all the others have a lean dictated by their location with respect to the left or right end points. What filter should I be looking for?
-- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 15:16 -0400, john Culleton wrote:
Came across a string of text on a book cover where the first letter leans to the left, the last leans to the right, the middle character is upright and all the others have a lean dictated by their location with respect to the left or right end points. What filter should I be looking for?
Convert text to path then:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-ModifyPath.html#Exte...
You could do it with the Displacement filter primitive but unless you are a mathematician and a programmer it would not be easy:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters-Pixel.html#Filters-Disp...
On 14-9-2011 21:38, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 15:16 -0400, john Culleton wrote:
Came across a string of text on a book cover where the first letter leans to the left, the last leans to the right, the middle character is upright and all the others have a lean dictated by their location with respect to the left or right end points. What filter should I be looking for?
Convert text to path then:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-ModifyPath.html#Exte...
You could do it with the Displacement filter primitive but unless you are a mathematician and a programmer it would not be easy:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters-Pixel.html#Filters-Disp...
Or, alternatively: 1. create text object, select it, and press ctrl+C (copy it) 2. create horizontal straight line 3. apply LPE "Pattern along path" to this straight line, with "width in units of length" set, and click the "link to path" button next to "pattern source" (you should now see the text on the path) 4. apply a second LPE "Envelope deformation", uncheck the "left&right paths" 5. edit the top and bottom bend path, and you're done :)
This preserves editing capability of your text. It is somewhat of a hack, but it is intended use of the "link to path" capability of the Pattern along path LPE. Unfortunately, the wait for LPE's to be available for text turns out to be very long. So until then, you can use this method.
Ciao, Johan
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:08 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
On 14-9-2011 21:38, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 15:16 -0400, john Culleton wrote:
Came across a string of text on a book cover where the first letter leans to the left, the last leans to the right, the middle character is upright and all the others have a lean dictated by their location with respect to the left or right end points. What filter should I be looking for?
Convert text to path then:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-ModifyPath.html#Exte...
You could do it with the Displacement filter primitive but unless you are a mathematician and a programmer it would not be easy:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Filters-Pixel.html#Filters-Disp...
Or, alternatively:
- create text object, select it, and press ctrl+C (copy it)
- create horizontal straight line
- apply LPE "Pattern along path" to this straight line, with "width in units of length" set, and click the "link to path" button next to "pattern source" (you should now see the text on the path)
- apply a second LPE "Envelope deformation", uncheck the "left&right paths"
- edit the top and bottom bend path, and you're done :)
This preserves editing capability of your text. It is somewhat of a hack, but it is intended use of the "link to path" capability of the Pattern along path LPE. Unfortunately, the wait for LPE's to be available for text turns out to be very long. So until then, you can use this method.
Ah, I didn't know that the text could be used with "link to path"! That is quite nice. BTW, it has been proposed that SVG 2 include the ability to distort text between a bottom and top path. I played a bit with the envelope distortion to demonstrate what is possible with Inkscape right now. You can see what I came up with at:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/TEXT_PATH/TextPath.html
On 11-09-15 03:52 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Ah, I didn't know that the text could be used with "link to path"! That is quite nice. BTW, it has been proposed that SVG 2 include the ability to distort text between a bottom and top path. I played a bit with the envelope distortion to demonstrate what is possible with Inkscape right now. You can see what I came up with at:
FYI: I tried this in Firefox 6 and all the SVG appear to be correct. In others words, Firefox can be added to the list of browsers that display `<textPath>` correctly.
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