Episode 014 – Place Text Around a Circle
by heathenx
This tutorial illustrates the steps needed to place text around a circle in Inkscape v0.45.
Tags: circle, path, text
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August 15th, 2008 at 8:32 am
All of this screencasts are wonderfull. Very usefull indeed.
What’s happens if, instead of using manual kerning to adjust the position of the text, you rotate the whole thing -45º? (or is this a possibility given by 0.46 and not by 0.45?)
August 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
@Javier
Try it and find out. As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:53 am
[...] on moving the letters with mesh. While circular/curved text can be done in Inkscape, (see this video) the best tool out there is probably already on your computer, its the WordArt widget that’s [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Thanks you Thank you Thank you!!!! I have spent week trying to figure this out on my own. Everything I was trying to accomplish was in this video. Thank you again for the time you have spent to teach others.
RK
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 am
HELLO,
i AM VERY NEW TO THIS AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, HOW DO I DOWNLOAD THE RIGHT VERSION OF INKSCAPE TO USE ON MY MAKE THE CUT/ CRICUT CUTTING MACHINE. i KNOW YOU MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR (NOT SURE IF I SPELLED THAT RIGHT) WITH EITHER ONE OF THE ITEMS I MENTIONED…..
aNY HELP WOULD BE OF HELP. YOUR VIDEO WAS VERY HELPFUL
THANKS IN ADVANCE,
nICOLE
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:16 am
@NICOLE
I have no idea what “right” version of Inkscape you’ll need for your cutter but you can download the latest version (release 0.47) from http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en. Just pick a link for your particular operating system, download, install, and give it a try.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am
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November 4th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
There probably is and I would most likely find the answer if I googled, but I will ask anyway: is it possible to speed up manual text kerning or is Alt+Left/Right the only way to do it in Inkscape?
November 4th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
In the latest version of Inkscape, version 0.48, they have added some letter/word spacing options on the text toolbar that were not present in v0.45. That’s as automatic as you’ll probably get. Works well on text paragraphs, at least that’s what I use it for.
February 1st, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Thank you for the video, but I’m having problems saving it and importing it into Cricut. Its only showing me the two circles. I’ve even completed the last part. What am I doing wrong?
February 2nd, 2013 at 8:57 am
@Mykel. Hmm…not exactly sure. I’ve never used a Cricut so not sure how to prepare a file for it. Maybe try saving a plain svg instead of an Inkscape default svg. Or does it need dxf? Or another format?