Inkscape's background is transparent by default. If you need it the size of the text, first select the text, then File menu > Document Properties > Page tab > Custom Size > Resize Page to Contents. If you need the page to be the size of the video, go to File menu > Document Properties > Page tab > Custom Size. I guess you either need the page to be the size of the text, or the size of the video.įirst, delete all your other contents, all the clipping paths you made, everything but the text. (Remember that raster graphics (GIMP) and vector graphics (Inkscape) are very, very different.)Īlthough I don't know that for a fact. However, to use as a watermark, I'm guessing you probably need the page to be the same size as the object. That's what the bounding box shows you, the size of the object. The text already is the size of the bounding box. I'm concerned that you might not need to clip the text at all. If you could give us a little more info about what you want to accomplish, we can guide you in the proper way to do it. Possibly you didn't have both the text/group and clipping path both selected. I don't know why the result would look like your 3rd example, because it looks like you've drawn a whole new clipping path. If you clip the text as you've shown it, it's not going to look any different.Īnyway, you have the correct steps for clipping. But it's possible you don't need to clip the text at all. It's not clear from your screenshot what else might be happening with the image. (Even though the Rectangle tool draws a shape, not a path, it still works like a path for clipping, and some other things.)īut now that I'm thinking about that, I'm starting to wonder why you want to clip the text in the first place. But in any case, since they are already a single object, you don't need to group them.ģ - While you certainly can use any tool that draws a path, to create the clipping path, in this case you would typically use the Rectangle tool, and draw a rectangle around it. I don't know whether they are one text object or a group (I would need to see the SVG file, to know that). Then I asked for a more complete PS file… So I know that Inkscape would work, and it gives me more options for editing than Paint, but Paint is the simplest answer for now.2 - Ok, if you look at the text after you select it, notice how the bounding box (the dashed line rectangle) is already around both of them. And it all looks good except the Biotext logo is missing! In fact, that’s a problem with the original PostScript file I was give, so, in the end, I just used MSPAINT.EXE to write over the top of the original text, having inspected the PS file to give me a hint on what font to use. So, what if we import the EPS into Inkscape? Again, we use Poppler/Cairo import, and it looks good! Now, I can type my 9 in 34 point Source Sans Pro Light (34 point was trial and error, to be honest). On the right, and encapsulated PostScript file that has a custom box around it. Before I did this, the image looked like the left image here, now it looks like the right: Left - PostScript file that expects the image to fit on a standard page. Manually, by the way, using the File → PS to EPS menu. So I use good old gsview to create a new, correct bounding box. ps file, but what it really needs to be is an. I can add the 9, but the image does not look right. I choose Poppler/Cairo import (seems to work better in most cases) and there it is! But the image has been sort of wrapped, so the right edge is meeting the left… huh? No, it’s cropped the right and failed to crop the left. So what can I do? Well, I can try to import the PostScript into Inkscape and add the requisite 9. So when I type 29, it has a 2 on hand because of the year 2020 being in the file, and 30 works because it has a 0 and a 3 from the previous version. The PostScript file has been set to include only the glyphs that are used. Why this? Well, if you look at the original you can see that there is no 9 in the correct font. Let me show what happens if I do: The 9 is missing - why? Now, you might think I can just type ’29 and 30′ where it says ‘3 and 4’ - but I can’t! Well, I can but it does not work. Here is a screen grab - we can see that the font is Source Sans Pro Light. Whether we use Inkscape or Paint, we want to match the font correctly. It has a colour picker to match the colour, and then you just work out what font you need and eyeball the size and type over the top.Ĭrude but effective. And I could just use Windows Paint! It’s actually not that bad. Now, this is a jpeg, but I do have a PostScript version too. I just want to change the dates from ‘3 and 4′ to ’29 and 30’ because the one on 3 and 4 sold out and we’re scheduling another one. The designer works in InDesign, but I don’t have access to that. Here is my image: The image I want to update
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