You can change the color of your line (or make it transparent) so it's not visible in your project. Select the text and the curve, then click on Text > Put on Path. You can draw a line to illustrate the curve you want your text to have, but what to do next? Fortunately, I found out, this is fairly easy in Inkscape.Ĭreate your text, configuring it however you want, then draw a line with the bezier tool, and edit the line so it has the curve you need. Sometimes in your graphics creation, you want something that's not just straight text, but you want it to have some shape to it. The one on the left was done with the eraser tool and the one on the right was done with the pen tool and Path > Difference. Here you can see the difference in the two methods. This looks much smoother than the first try. With both the circle and the line selected, go to Path > Difference complete your erasing. I made mine 12 but you can make it any size. Then, go to your Properties window and adjust the stroke size to however wide you want. While you have the line chosen, click on Path > Stroke to Path. We wanted a larger area erased, so we'll adjust the stroke width. The good thing about this is that you can adjust your nodes before you erase. Instead of the eraser, we'll be using the Pen tool to draw a line similar to the previous eraser scrub. The best way to erase in Inkscape is to use boolean path operations. Yikes! That's not what I wanted at all! Using the eraser added about 100 nodes to our simple circle. Let's see how we do this using a circle:Ĭhoose the Eraser tool, change the mode to Cut out from objects, and set the brush Width: 25. Everything is based on points and lines, so you'll actually have to add/change the points in order to give the illusion of erasing. Technically, you can't "erase" with vector design.
Just goes to show what I just said about not knowing everything. As I've said before, I don't know everything about Inkscape, so I'm constantly searching for articles or tutorials to expand my knowledge (I believe I actually only know enough to be dangerous!)Įvery time I chose the eraser tool in Inkscape, I was disappointed because it didn't work like I thought it should. I found this tutorial while I was looking for some technical information about Inkscape, and I thought maybe there were more than just me who didn't know some of these methods. Inkscape Tutorial: Five Inkscape Essentials
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