Inkscape Typography Tutorial: How to Radiate Text Around a Circle
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
- Inkscape tutorial hosted by Rick Johanson, showing you to radiate text around a circle. Follow along and learn the basics of Inkscape, including the how to do a Path Effects:Rotate Copies and use simple guide lines. Typographic word art example in this video: Casey at the Bat
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Haven’t watched videos in awhile Rick. Glad. To be back watching and learning.
Thanks so much, Steve!
very practical and inventive solution !
always a little moment of joy when a new inkscape video of yours is popping up 😊
thank you for your efforts! 🙏
(1) Create 'A' text
(2) Click twice and move center of rotation to desired center of circle.
(3) Create Tiled Clones: Rows 48 Columns 1, Shift - Per row - Shift Y negative 100%, Rotation - Per row - Angle 360/48, Create
(4) Select All clones
(5) Edit - Clone - Unlink Clone
(6) Proceed to select and copy/paste
OR
Edit - XML Editor, expand each element (text, then tspan, then the content), and paste text
Note: The original and first clone will overlap, so delete one of them
I found another way since the path for 'put on path' doesn't have to be continuous. This method works better for lines of similar lengths.
(1) Create text by copying and pasting the whole poem
(2) Create a horizontal path with 2 points, ideally as long as the longest line
(3) Path effects - Rotate copies. Change to the required number so the rotation angle will change, then untick 'Distribute evenly' and put a minus sign on the angle. Otherwise the text will flow the opposite way. Offset the center of the rotation as you did in your video
(5) Click this LPE object and the text
(6) Text - Put on path
However, the text will now be continuous and not break. You can adjust by inserting spaces but this will be a lot of work for many lines. But it's quite fun since you can play around with the original path (adjust angle, make a curvy path). You can also convert the LPE to Object and then adjust and delete the nodes but you can't modify the LPE anymore.
Anyway, thanks for all the lessons!
Thank you! I’m going to try this when I get home. I really appreciate it!
Wow- I like this idea too. Going to try it as well. Thanks so much for the great methods. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@@IronEchoDesignNeed an tutorial Rick.😊
the result is perfect! I saved it as a template
Thank you! The template cuts out a few steps, and we can change fonts to try other looks.
Great idea and tutorial!
Thank you!! 😊
Seeing the miniature I was thinking how will you do that. And I think It would be hard to make it the other way. Good work as usual.
I played with a few other methods and although this one was manual, it works. I am curious if anyone knows a setting or something I’m missing??
@@IronEchoDesign I don't think you are missing anything. I was thinking about putting text on path, then turn all letters 90 digrees (by changing angle or putting words to be vertical), and then convert text to glyphs. But not only I'm not sure if it would work. It would also need as much manual work you did and you woudn't have as much control as in rotating copies vrsion. So yeah. U think it's the best way to do this with this tool. Also - It just works.
@@IronEchoDesign Ok, I checked it out. After converting text to glyphs, the whole "text on path" effect is gone, and letters are not on the path anymore. So my solution wouldn't work. There is a script that converts multiline text to individual lines. So maybe there is some way, but I'm still not sure.
@Inkscape-tutorial-pl thanks- we think alike. I did try that method, hoping it may work. It did create an interesting effect, but not the intended outcome. Ha.
@Inkscape-tutorial-pl cool. I’ll look into that script. Thanks!
I love your tutorial. Do u know how to do a nonogram puzzle in inkscape?
I really like that effect, thanks for the video. I've been playing with text clones, since they accept LPE and if the text was the same it would work, but I can't seem to individualize the lines once placed to edit the text separately. I'm pretty sure there is a way to do this, but I can't figure out how to accomplish it 😥🤣
Thanks! Same here. I tried unlinking clones. Tried grouping before running LPE. Rearrange. There must be a way. Or if not, I at least have the template now. 😅
Love this concept! I'm too lazy (or a-retentive) to copy/paste into so many individual text "boxes." I assume Inkscape doesn't do linked text boxes/frames? If not, I'd be inclined to use something like Affinity Publisher where you can link all the frames. Set up like this, but with linked frames, you'd be able to paste into the first frame and flow into the following frames. Of course, you'd have to edit (hit Enter/Return) where the breaks should be. BUT, finding a way to do this programmatically would be fantastic!
"The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day..." Kids are grown, but I can STILL recite almost the entire book from memory. 😅
Thanks so much! Linked frames sounds like a great idea. Love Casey at the Bat. ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️
1) Rotate copies of a Bezier line 2) Convert all the copies to paths (ctrl+shift+c) 3) Combine them (ctrl+k) 4) Paste the text as a single text object 5) Select text and the combined path 6) From menu Text->Put on path 7) Adjust individual line lengths by moving the end node of the line while holding down ctrl+alt
The new Inkscape 1.4 beta is out…..can you approach the cut work feature in inkstitch ?
Thanks
@3:22 Do you think Ctrl+D is easier than having the object selected and hitting the spacebar to place a copy?
I love the spacebar method. For some reason I went with Ctrl+D. Ha.
@@IronEchoDesign when you were commentating, you mentioned there being a couple ways to do it. I was curious what other ways
Space bar was one of them. There is also a complicated way to set up Tiled Clones and have them rotate automatically. But the repetitive way was the simple solution.