Does anyone have an example of how to set the bottom half of text in Inkscape to one color/fill to tell the GF to engrave the bottom half, yet set the top half of the text for a cut?
I’m trying to make a plaque where the letters extend above a box so their tops are cut but in the box the bottom half of the letters are engraved…I hope that makes sense!!
Could anyone describe how to do something like this?
Yes, as soon as you ungroup the text elements, it will already have them all selected. If you mistakenly unselect them, just select all the text elements again.
You can do the split one letter at a time, but it’s much faster to do it all in one step.
It totally makes sense, and it’s all about using the path booleans, especially union and difference. I’m going to assume you’re intermediate at inkscape and gloss a bit.
Make your text, convert it to a path, ungroup it and combine the letter paths into one large path.
Make a rectangle to enclose the top and bottom of your text, and convert it to a path.
Copy and paste that text/rectangle twice to have three copies.
Now align everything using your first copy rectangle. Delete the original text (you only needed it for alignment purposes), and you should be left with your two half-texts and a rectangle.
Thanks everyone! I was able to make this work in Inkscape. My only concern will be when I cut it. I’m wondering if it will cut the top half ov the letters away from the piece or just have them sticking above it. I’m thinking it may cut them away since the bottom of the top half of letters is closed.
I find it fascinating that when you cut EASY in half, the bottom half looks like it’s saying LAST - I mean, I just saw the full word, yet in my brain it’s definitely LAST
I’m having an issue with:
Go to one set, select the rectangle and the text, and select path->difference. (Bottom left)
Go to the other, select the rect and text, path->intersection. (Bottom right)
In both cases I’m only getting the bottom half of the text. One with the rectangle and one without. In both cases I lose the top half.
I tried engraving and cutting this and the rectangle cut through the top letters event though I did a path-union. I need the bottom of the top letters to remain open i guess so that when joined with the rectangle it cuts along the outside of the top half of letters and continues around the rectangle. This time it cut straight around the rectangle and then cut the top portion of the letters leaving them seperated from the rectangle instead of attached.
Any ideas on how to avoid this from happening? Thanks again!
I spoke too soon…again!! I went back and tried the steps again and this time I added parts to layers so I could hide them. This time when I did the union I could see that the letter were open at the bottom (part of the rectangle). I just did the cut without the engrave to test and IT WORKED!!
I’m printing another with the engraving, but this seems that it has worked!! Thank you again @evansd2 !!
I wish I could but it has some sensitive info on a deal that I won’t be able to share out. A coworker asked if I could make him a plaque to memorialize the deal (which hasn’t even closed yet!)
Thank you again though. I learned something and I’m sure others could use this as well!