On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 16:41 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have a very simple file with two text objects, two circles and an > image and that's exactly what happened when I tried to work with it. > The > circles (no stroke and no fill) were used to create a path for the > text > to follow. > > It took two circles because Inkscape's arcane (more likely buggy) > method > of putting a text on path works very badly. It takes hair-pulling > sequences of flips and rotations to get the text to where it should > be. > You can't do it with just one circle because the circle, once set > for > the first piece of text, can't be touched for the second - you need > a > second, identical, circle to be able to do the flips and rotations > to > get the second piece of text right. I have no problem doing this with one circle... > When I resized the document, after scaling the drawing, so that the > drawing would fit on a single page, I couldn't re-centre it by > selecting > the entire drawing and treating it as a group. I had to actually > group > the drawing. When I tried to ungroup it, the text moved around. > Since > the purpose of the ungroup was to replace the image with a different > one, repositioning the text was not an option since it would be > difficult to get it back to exactly the same position. > > This meant that I couldn't simply replace the image with another one. > I > had to cover it with a circle the same colour as the background > (white) > to "erase" it. > > Anyway, if you look at > http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text%201. > png > you will see the drawing when the objects are grouped. > http://www.lionsclub.ca/images/vest%20design%20-%20curved%20text-%20b > ad%20.png > is the way the drawing looks after an ungroup. Note that both pieces > of > text are moved left and upwards and the "West Hill" text is rotated > about 15 degrees counter-clockwise. Yep, this I can reproduce, there are a couple of bug reports upstream that seems to match and it looks like it has been fixed for the upcoming 0.92. As a work around you can enter the group and do the edits there, instead of ungrouping and grouping again. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se
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