Drawing a text with source light effect

A way to do this in Inkscape is to skew your text and add a perspective effect to a blurred copy of the text itself.

Start with your text:

Using the handles, you can skew it to give a perspective tense:

Now, duplicate the text by hitting Ctrl-D and draw a rectangle of the same size of the bounding box of the text, snapping to the text:

Convert the Rectangle to path, hit F2 and move the nodes of the rectangle in the desired position of the shadow:

Select one of the text, convert to a path and add the Path effect Perspective/envelope. Please note that once converted to a path the text cannot be edit (I should have written “its” and not “his” … oops!).

Hit F2, move the nodes of the envelope to fit the shape of the rectangle:

Now the rectangle is useless, you can delete it or move it to a hidden layer. Please note that you didn’t need the rectangle to add the path effect, it was just for explanations purposes:

Now, lower the text to be used as a shadow, give a slight blur and opacity to its fill:

Add a background and change the fill of the text:

Enjoy!