Comments on: Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial

By: Anax

Anax — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:25:20 +0000

Well written tutorial, thank you.

By: Kaveh

Kaveh — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:46:05 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I have one problem which I can’t get around though. When I envelope my text with a box, it stretches my text in a funny way, sometimes the letter jumps to distant places, gets distorted in side ways, get upside down, left ro right, etc., and it never gets the way I want it to be :) Is there anything I’m missing here? Thanks.

By: Merv

Merv — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:54:40 +0000

Great tutorial! Thanks. Just what I was looking for and more. Lots of other great info on Inkscape functions that I didn’t even know existed.

By: Merritt

Merritt — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:37:04 +0000

It worked OK with a different font. I have no idea what caused it not to work with the other font. Successfully distorted all the letters yesterday, March 5th.

By: Brownspank

Brownspank — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:05:59 +0000

Does this happen with only the S? Also, have you tried a different font? It may have something to do with the path of the S. Let me know if you find out what’s causing it.

By: Merritt

Merritt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:17:20 +0000

Tried again a few days later (March 3rd, computer has been off several times), still did the same thing, S disappeared.

By: Merritt

Merritt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:06:23 +0000

Shift+R doesn’t do anything, so far as I can tell. Tried it, then Envelope and the S still disappeared.

By: Brownspank

Brownspank — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:28:21 +0000

Hmmm, the function itself doesn’t seem to have changed since 0.46. Have you tried reversing (select a shape, then Shift+R) one or both paths?

By: Merritt

Merritt — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:38:32 +0000

BTW, I selected the letter S and the “bounding box” in that order, first the letter S then the rectangle.

By: Merritt

Merritt — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:17:15 +0000

Followed the tutorial OK until I reached the letter distortion step. When I applied the Envelope, the letter S disappeared, leaving only the “bounding box” rectangle. What have I done wrong? (BTW, the “Effects” mentioned are now called “Extensions” in v0.47.)