Inkscape - Edit a Farm House Sign

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I recently helped out one of the members with his farm house sign project. I did the original edit using Design Edge, but Guy was interested to see how he could accomplish the same thing using Inkscape. Here are some screen shots showing more about the project and the editing process.

David


This is how his file looked when I opened it with Design Edge.

Here are the Inkscape screen shots showing the editing process.
This is the overview showing what we want to accomplish.

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Here is how we accomplished it showing some of the Inkscape edit steps in detail.
David

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Here are several methods that can be used for bending the letters to fit a curve. Guy had already heavily edited the original text, so it was now in Vector format and the Inkscape "Text, Put on path" tool could not be used.

David

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The final version looks something like this.
David

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Great work David. You spent a lot of time on this. Even the screen shots take time. You are the "Node Editor King"
Thanks.