Instant Inkscape - Adding words to a Frame

[theroar84]

Step 1… be smarter than me… My font choice was silly, but persistence pays off in the end.

Instant Inkscape! A frame with Connected Words!

[marmak3261]

Nice. I like the tip of using the visible nodes to get them to overlap for the union!

[theroar84]

Thanks. It was a “learned” skill… I bet you I ran this one through the GF 15 times before I finally succeeded. Silly to use cardboard, but I am sooooo frugal. =)

[marmak3261]

Posting a link to the topic that I started to do this same thing. It’s good to have yours up to date. All my videos are a bit obsolete in the GFUI. This is a fundamental skill that folks can learn and then do lots of cools stuff.

Inkscape Tutorial: text to outlines

Continuing the discussion from Inkscape prep: @cmreeder inspired me to figure this technique out. Then I realized it would be a good process to try and document as a tutorial. The road to getting the screen capture and audio was tortuous (for a cheapo guy like me). After having done the routine about 50 times, I got pretty familiar with the method in Inkscape. This is the first video I ever edited (did it in four scenes) and then used Audacity to overdub the commentary. Open to comments and su…