- From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:45 +0200
- To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Hi, At last week's WG meeting[1] we discussed textPath method="stretch". It has been pointed out that the exact way the glyphs are to be distorted has not been defined. Israel Eisenberg has proposed that glyphs be distorted so that horizontal lines are "offset mapped" to the path and he provided some compelling examples. Inkscape includes some general path distortion functionality. The question was raised as to how the distortions are done so I've prepared a web page to demonstrate some of the ways one can distort paths in Inkscape. You can find the page at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/TEXT_PATH/TextPath.html The short answer is that "extensions" permanently distort a path moving the nodes and control points while "live path effects" store the original path in the Inkscape name space and create a new, distorted path by first converting a Bezier path to an "SBasis" path, applying the distortion, and then converting back to a Bezier path that is used in the SVG <path>. Tav [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/07/14-svg-minutes.html
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