I’m trying to squeeze a text into a shape so that after removing the shape the text gives the impression of the shape. In the above example MYTEXT should go into the elipse.
How can i do this with inkscape ?
Answer
- Save your work. Experiment first 🙂
- Path Menu > Object to path – Convert the text to a path
- Path Menu > Path Effect Editor – Shows path effect editor at right
- Choose Envelope Deformation from drop down
- Click the Add button
- Select the Top bend path option (edit on canvas button – the left of the four btns on each row)
- Shift-drag out the tangents from the left and right node
- Repeat for the bottom bend
- For the left and right bends – optionally just move the upper and lower nodes closer together to pinch the left and right tips, but enure they stay vertically aligned
TIP – if you don’t want the text to go right into the tips of the corners, add a ‘+’ to the beginning and the end of the text and then when you’re done, paint these characters white or transparent. This is because when you convert text to a path, it will ignore any leading or terminating spaces because they’re not part of the ‘path’
EDIT – additional example
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : PeterMmm , Answer Author : Roger Attrill
