On 07/07/16 03:17 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 14:23 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
I admit that I only use Inkscape on an occasional basis but I don't
recall it being so atrociously bad in my past experiences with it.
However the current round of bugs I'm seeing suggest that the
developers
aren't really in control of their code.
Grouping objects creates different results in transformations than
telling Inkscape to treat the selection as a group. Ungrouping
objects
causes them to shift position or rotation. And putting text on a
path
produces bizarre results. If the path isn't a circle, you may not be
able to produce the effect you want.
As far as I can remember, these things all used to work. Does anyone
know what's going on with Inkscape development to make it so
unusable
right now?
I work a lot in Inkscape and have not experienced anything you describe
here.
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.
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-%20bad%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.
