Inkscape/C3/Text-Manipulation/English
Title of script: Text Manipulation
Author: Priya K and Arthi.A
Keywords: Inkscape, Text on path, Text on shape, Image inside text, Perspective text, Cutout text.
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Opening Slide | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Text Manipulation” using Inkscape. |
Learning Objectives (Slide) | In this tutorial we will learn to-
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System requirement (Slide) | To record this tutorial, I am using-
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Open Inkscape | Let us open Inkscape. |
Click on Text tool | First, we will learn how to create text on a path. Click on Text tool. |
Type “Spoken Tutorial is an Audio-Video tutorial” | Type the sentence “Spoken Tutorial is an Audio-Video tutorial” on the canvas. |
Change font size to 20 | Reduce the font size to 20. |
Click on Bezier tool
Draw a tilde path |
Recall that we had learnt to create path using the Bezier tool in earlier tutorial. So, click on it
Click on the canvas and draw a tilde shape like path, below the text. |
Select both | Select both the text and the path. |
Go to Text menu.
Click on Put on Path. |
Go to Text menu and click on Put on Path option.
Observe our text is formed on the path. |
Click anywhere on the canvas to deselect all. | |
Click on Text tool | Select the Text tool and click on the starting point of the text. |
Press Space bar several times | Give some spaces by pressing space bar to adjust the text on the path. |
Select the path and Node tool >>Click and drag the handles | Now select the path and click on Node tool. Using the handles resize the path.
Observe that the text transforms according to the resizing of the path. |
Go to Text menu >> Remove from Path | To remove the text from the path, go to Text menu.
Click on Remove from Path. |
Press Ctrl + Z | Observe that the path is now removed. Press Ctrl + Z to undo this action.
<<PAUSE>> |
Next, we will learn how to insert text into a shape. | |
Create a hexagon. | Using Polygon tool, create a hexagon. Now we will insert some text inside the hexagon. |
Open LO Writer >> Press Ctrl + A >> Press Ctrl + C | I will copy some text from a LibreOffice Writer file that I had saved earlier.
Press Ctrl + A to select the text and press Ctrl + C to copy them. |
Click on the Text tool.
Click on Canvas and press Ctrl + V. |
Now, come back to Inkscape. Click on the Text tool.
Press Ctrl + V below the hexagon to paste the text. |
Select both | Select both the text and the hexagon.
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Go to Text menu. Click on Flow into Frame | Now go to Text menu.
Click on Flow into Frame. |
Change the font to 10 >> | Now our text is inserted inside the hexagon.
Reduce the font size to 10 to make all the texts visible. |
Go to Text menu >> Click on Unflow | To remove the Flow, go to Text menu and Click on Unflow.
Observe that the text has disappeared. Press Ctrl + Z to undo this action. <<PAUSE>> |
Now we will learn how to create text on an image. | |
Go to File and Import. | First let us import an image. Go to File and Import. |
Import an image | I have saved an image in the Pictures folder. |
Select the image >> Object menu >> Pattern >> Object to Pattern | Now we have the image on our canvas. Select it and go to Object menu.
Click on Pattern and Object to Pattern. |
Type “SPOKEN TUTORIAL” >> Make it Bold. | Using the Text tool, type “SPOKEN TUTORIAL” under the image.
Make this text Bold. |
Object menu >> Fill and Stroke
Under Fill tab click Pattern icon |
Go to Object menu. Click on Fill and Stroke option.
Click Pattern icon under Fill tab. Now the image is formed on the text. |
Click on Node tool
Point to the handles |
To adjust the image, click on the Node tool.
We can see a square handle and a circular handle on the image. |
Click and rotate the circular handle.
Click and resize the square handle. |
Click on the circular handle to rotate the image on the text.
Click on the square handle to resize it. <<PAUSE>> |
Next we will learn how to create text in a perspective. | |
Type “SPOKEN”
Go to Path menu >> Object to Path. |
Type “SPOKEN” on the canvas.
Go to Path menu and click on Object to Path. |
Select Bezier curve >> Draw the path | Next let us draw the path by selecting Bezier curve.
Start drawing the path from the left bottom. Draw a rectangle in perspective with larger side, at the left side and smaller side at the right. |
Select both text and path | First select the text and then the rectangular path. |
Go to Extensions >> Modify Path >>Perspective | Go to Extensions, click on Modify Path and then on Perspective. |
Point to the transformed text | Now, we can see that the text appears in perspective.
Note the text takes the starting point and direction of the path. |
Next, let us create the text in another perspective. | |
Type the word “TUTORIAL”
Go to Path menu >> Object to Path |
Type “TUTORIAL” on the canvas.
Go to Path menu and click on Object to Path. |
Draw a path starting from left top corner | Draw a similar perspective rectangular path using Bezier tool.
This time start from left top corner and continue in a clockwise direction. |
Go to Extensions >> Modify Path >>Perspective | First select the text and then the path.
Go to Extensions, Modify Path and then on Perspective. |
Point to the transformed text | Now we see that the text appears from top to bottom.
This is because the text is aligned, based on the starting point of the path. <<PAUSE>> |
Lastly, we will learn about cut-out text. | |
Type “INKSCAPE” | Create a rectangle and type the word “INKSCAPE” on the top of the rectangle. |
Select both. Path menu >> Difference | Select both. Go to Path menu. Select Difference option.
Observe what happens on the canvas. |
We will learn one more method of creating cut-out text. | |
Type “INKSCAPE”
Go to Object menu >> Fill and Stroke |
Again, type the word “INKSCAPE”
Go to Object menu and Click on Fill and Stroke. |
Go to Stroke paint >> Flat color | Go to Stroke paint tab, click on Flat color. |
Go to Stroke style
Type 5 in width |
Go to Stroke style tab and change the width parameter to 5. |
Go to Fill tab >> No paint | Go to Fill tab and click on No paint.
Observe a cut out shape has formed on our text. <<PAUSE>> |
Summary (Slide) | Let us summarize.
In this tutorial we learnt to
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Completed assignment | Here are a few assignments for you.
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Completed assignment | Your completed assignment should look like this. |
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About Slide | Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by the NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
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Acknowledgment | We have come to the end of this tutorial.
This is Arthi and Priya from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining. |