HI Guys
I am a real noob and still learning inkscape. are there any ready-to -use SVG files available for letters please? if not can anyone point me to a good step by step tutorial on how to create letters please?
Thanks in advance
Linsey
HI Guys
I am a real noob and still learning inkscape. are there any ready-to -use SVG files available for letters please? if not can anyone point me to a good step by step tutorial on how to create letters please?
Thanks in advance
Linsey
You can use inkscape to write anything you like using the text tool. When youāve got it sized and positioned how you want it, use the āobject to pathā menu option, which will convert it to a group of path objects.
If this all reads like random words, Iām afraid thereās a bit of a learning curve in general. Iād start with the tutorials on the forum.
Further reading: search forum for ātext pathsā.
Thankyou ill try that
If you want to cut them out and the typeface has overlapping letters (cursive scripts, for example), youāll need to combine the paths together. I donāt know Inkscape, but in Illustrator itās part of the pathfinder menu.
I wouldnāt mind throwing one together for you. What type of font are you looking for?
I just learned how to do that a few days ago. After you convert it to path you select all your letters and go to āPathā and āUnionā and itāll print as a single stroke instead of several.
Here is one. Itās set up for doing inlays. Red is cut and then convert blue to engrave in the GFUI for placing the letters.
I just got to make a video how to on this for you. Here are two that treat it.
How does the Prego commercial go? āItās in there!ā
I think you have to ungroup the letter paths before you try to union them, yes? I think the path commands only work when paths are selected.
Iāve never had to ungroup them. Once you put them in paths the computer sees them as separate entities, which is why they print funky if itās a cursive/handwriting script.
Huh, I could swear Iāve had trouble with path booleans when dealing with groups. Maybe itās when it is groups of mixed object types or something. Or wait maybe youāre talking about illustrator? I am talking inkscape.
Iām talking Inkscape. I donāt have illustrator yet, itās on the list though. Iāve had issues with pathing and joins with everything else but not from text. Maybe itās because Inkscape makes the letters so pathing them isnāt hard? I donāt know.
Iāve always had to ungroup text before using āUnionā to join them together in Inkscape.
Use the āUnionā command to join the handwriting/scripts together and eliminate the overlapping parts that do weird things. You might discover after converting the text to paths, youāll need to ungroup the text objects before you can Union them together.
I understand what youāre saying. Iām saying that Iāve been doing nothing but text work for the last week and Iāve never had to do this? I convert to path, select it all and union and it works.
A great way to learn some stuff in Inkscape is to walk through some of those first few projects that Glowforge put together. The custom luggage tag one and the lidded box one show a few basic things in Inkscape and you can kind of get going from there.
So I just went in, made a text object, then converted it to path.
As expected, this made a group of path objects.
I selected that group, went to path->union, and it remained a group of paths that were not unified.
I triple-clicked on the letters to select one of them (without ungrouping them first). This puts me āin the groupā as far as scope of focus is concerned. I dragged a rectangle around all the letters (which are still grouped but now I can modify the group from within), and path->unioned. This made them all one unified path.
I clicked on a different object to get out of the group, then clicked on the newly āunionedā letters, and it was a group of one path object.
Alternately, I could have selected the group of letter paths and ongrouped them, then path->unionāed and it would have worked too.
Soā¦ Iām not sure how your unioning is working, but Iām glad it is Maybe I have some different settings from you, or weāre on different versions of inkscape or something (0.92.1), but this pretty much confirms for me that a group of paths wonāt union unless I take steps to make it work in my setup. I kind of wish it worked for me like youāre describing, itās kind of easy to miss (it fails silently) and I have failed to unify paths because of it.
Hey maybe. I dunno. Iām pretty novice to this whole thing. Iāve only worked with Inkscape for a grand total of 7 weeks so Iām just figuring most of this out on the fly. A lot of my first projects had text that turned out wonky because I didnāt know about union at all.
On a side note, I totally understand why artists and makers tend to be perfectionists lol. You look at a project you did before you learned new tricks and cringe, thinking āMan I wish I could redo that now.ā
I figured out what was different for me! I convert to path, but then I was tweaking spacing with the letters. So I already had an individual letter selected. So technically Iām not breaking them apart but I already had a single letter selected so when I then select the rest it unions without a problem.
Aha there you go. You were inside the group at the time.
Nice detective work!