Can Inkscape draw text along a curve? If so would someone be kind enough to post instructions.
Thanks
Nope, but that's been a very popular feature request. Currently there is no way to achieve that, except using very manual methods (individually placing letters...)
Bryce
On Thu, 6 May 2004, George Farris wrote:
Can Inkscape draw text along a curve? If so would someone be kind enough to post instructions.
Thanks
Hello there!
You wrote:
Nope, but that's been a very popular feature request.
So is it planned for some next release?
Currently there is no way to achieve that, except using very manual methods (individually placing letters...)
Yes, this works ;-)
Good luck!
Artemio.
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Artemio wrote:
Hello there!
You wrote:
Nope, but that's been a very popular feature request.
So is it planned for some next release?
Well, unfortunately the text system in general needs a huge amount of underlying work to make it more powerful and better able to support features like this. In addition to text-on-a-path there's a number of other bugs and features hung up by this.
So the plan is that the underlying text system needs massive rework to give us something much more powerful and much easier to extend.
The first step in this process that we've chosen is to replace the underlying custom text rendering architecture, libnrtype, with a more standard one called Pango, which will give us a modularly extensible system with very strong internationalization support (which we have noticed is very important to the Inkscape community). I wrote a page describing this change in more detail in wiki, if you're curious:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Pangoification
I am hopeful that once this change is done, it will be more evident what will need to be done to improve the higher levels of text system functionality.
That said, I'm sure if someone really had an itch to implement text on a path, this can probably be worked out in parallel to the above work, but for the current developers the plan is to get Pango in there first, and see where that puts us.
Bryce
Currently there is no way to achieve that, except using very manual methods (individually placing letters...)
Yes, this works ;-)
Good luck!
Artemio.
Thanks very much for your response and let me just say that I love Inkscape, well done everyone.
On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 10:42, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Artemio wrote:
Hello there!
You wrote:
Nope, but that's been a very popular feature request.
So is it planned for some next release?
Well, unfortunately the text system in general needs a huge amount of underlying work to make it more powerful and better able to support features like this. In addition to text-on-a-path there's a number of other bugs and features hung up by this.
So the plan is that the underlying text system needs massive rework to give us something much more powerful and much easier to extend.
The first step in this process that we've chosen is to replace the underlying custom text rendering architecture, libnrtype, with a more standard one called Pango, which will give us a modularly extensible system with very strong internationalization support (which we have noticed is very important to the Inkscape community). I wrote a page describing this change in more detail in wiki, if you're curious:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PangoificationI am hopeful that once this change is done, it will be more evident what will need to be done to improve the higher levels of text system functionality.
That said, I'm sure if someone really had an itch to implement text on a path, this can probably be worked out in parallel to the above work, but for the current developers the plan is to get Pango in there first, and see where that puts us.
Bryce
Currently there is no way to achieve that, except using very manual methods (individually placing letters...)
Yes, this works ;-)
Good luck!
Artemio.
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