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Episode 098

Episode 098 – A Few Simple Text Treatments

by Richard Querin

In this episode, I demonstrate a few simple text treatments using Inkscape 0.46.

Nothing too technically challenging here, just a few treatments I’ve done on text in the past that I find valuable. Hopefully it will help spur people to use typography more in their designs.

At the start of this screencast I point to a great web site called The League of Moveable Type. While they only have a few fonts on there at the moment, they are committed to providing a collection of high-quality open source fonts. I commend them for that. Thanks to Troy for pointing me to that site. I’ve already found a couple of fonts there that I’ve used in some of my projects.

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13 Responses to “Episode 098”

  1. screencasters.heathenx.org/blog » Blog Archive Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    [...] Episode 098 is now up. This episode demonstrates a few simple text treatments that you might find valuable in your next Inkscape design project. [...]

  2. Richard Querin (rfquerin) 's status on Tuesday, 27-Oct-09 17:29:58 UTC - Identi.ca Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    [...] http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-098/ a few seconds ago from web [...]

  3. heathenx Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Nice work, Richard. :)

  4. eclipse Says:
    October 28th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    hello,

    thanks for this new episode.
    i wana give you another link for some nice free font (for use) :
    http://www.fontspace.com
    .

  5. heathenx Says:
    October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 am

    @eclipse

    Thanks for the link. I’ve never been to that one before. :)

  6. Darth_Gimp Says:
    October 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Another great cast. As per the apology ar the end… no worries. to be honest, I kind of assumed you guys were waiting for the next release… but that’s proving to be a longer wait than I thought as well. No need to apologize for not posting a cast.

    Thanks again folks.

  7. Aurelian Design Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Nice fonts on that website, but alas, they don’t have Windows versions, unless there is some way to convert the files?

  8. heathenx Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    @Aurelian Design

    Whatcha talkin’ about? Open type fonts work in Windows XP. I have about a dozen of them installed. Am I missing something?

  9. Richard Querin Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Yes. OpenType fonts do work in XP. .. However.. Inkscape 0.46 on XP will not see them (In my experience on my PC at work). I do however have a nightly build of 0.47 on my XP machine and it *does* read the opentype fonts.

  10. Aurelian Design Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Ah – cool! So I just install the font. YES! Had no idea those were supported. You guys are great!

  11. Aurelian Design Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Hmm… A few worked, but some (e. g., Flaminia) only had VFB files, and WinXP doesn’t seem to recognize those.

    The license is sure laywer-speak. I assume I can use the fonts (original or modified form) in a document as long as I don’t try to distribute the font as a font (original or modified form). That the way y’all understand it?

  12. heathenx Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    @Aurelian Design

    Regarding font license, that’s typically how it’s done. Nobody wants there precious fonts spread around for free. It’s a shame. That’s why I like the free ones. :)

  13. Auridian Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Nice work. You’re a great teacher!

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