

I’m going to be using it pretty exclusively to create ads for my small business, so importing stock/self taken images and adding our logo and text in different fonts and such. In general it is best to create an explicit path that you want the text to be fitted to, rather than fitting it to some other drawing element this will give you more control without screwing over your drawing. I just came across Inkscape as I was looking for a less expensive alternative to Adobe Illustrator. The text will start at the beginning of the path. I also show you how to adjust the text on the curve (including centering the text), flip or rotate the text around the curve, and how to separate the text from the curve. To place text along a curve, select the text and the curve together and choose Put on Path from the Text menu. This article explains the method of converting text to path in Inkscape. The process of converting text to a path in Inkscape comprises three steps. To do so, you have to convert the text into the path. I’ll just use the Pen tool and draw a simple curved line. Then we need to draw a path to curve our text to.


In this Inkscape Basics tutorial, I show you how to create curved text in Inkscape. In Inkscape, you may encounter the situation when you want to utilize the added text as a graphic element or object. To start out, let’s grab the Text tool and draw some text, of course. How to Create Curved Text in Inkscape 1.0
