Text not appearing when I upload to glowforge

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hello all, how do you attach text to object in inkscape so you can uploaded to glowforge

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You have to either convert the text to outlines first or save your file as a PDF instead of SVG to upload.

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I am in the beginning stage of this journey, I need step by step details. I went to path selected object to path the urgrouped then when to path and clicked union. object appears but no text

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Welcome to the fun!I’m afraid I use Illustrator and not Inkscape so I don’t personally know the exact steps - but there’s plenty of discussion on this topic, search the forum for “inkscape” and “convert text”. Or as I said earlier just save your file as a PDF.

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thanks

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Select the Text. Click on Path > Object to Path. Ungroup it. Then you should attach it through Union.

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Attaching it by combine will get better results as something like the letter “O” would lose that inside circle with union,

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I thought Combine kept the parts discrete? Union blends the paths together right? (Don’t know I’m not an Inkscape user, but I thought I’d just read that somewhere recently.)

Whichever one works. Just make sure you convert the text to a path first. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Combine makes them one thing and so sorts out what is inside and what is outside, Union makes the outermost outline one thing and deletes everything inside.

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So if you were creating a cutline with Combine that consisted of an overlapping circle and square, the resulting cut would be just the combined shape and not an individual circle and a square?

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yup! with fill on say the square was bigger you would have a square with a hole in it. With union you would have just a square.

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Huh! I can see some experimenting ahead. :smile:
(I really don’t need to be messing with this right now…but curiosity is going to get me…I know it.)

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Ask me how I know!

a big complex piece became just a blank space. fortunately, undo was working

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I see that you got some fantastic help in this thread. Thanks for the answer @ekla, @Jules, and @rbtdanforth that’s right. I’m going to close this thread - if the problem reoccurs, go ahead and post a new topic. Thanks for letting us know about this!