On (28/11/13 00:28), Roumano <[email protected]> put forth the proposition: >Le mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 21:52 +0000, David Woodfall a écrit : >> I'm trying to use Inkscape to create a watermark, which basically >> consists of 2 lines of text - my name and under it my website URL. >> >> I'm having huge problems with Inkscape. >It's not very easy to use it the first time. > >> For some reason it insists on making the text bold, even when I toggle bold >> off. >Have you try to select all your text, then toggle bold off ? >If you don't see any difference, it's can be a problem on the font >itself.
Yes I tried several different fonts and they all had a problem with bold. Even with one I did manage to toggle off it was still bold in the .svg file. At the moment LibreOffice produces a reasonable looking text so I'll stick with that for now. >> I have to edit the >> .svg in vim and change all the bold to normal. >> >> I've tried a quite a few script fonts but they all seem to have >> incorrect letter spacing, so periods disappear under the previous >> character and such. >It's look like a problem is related with the font, try another one. >You need a font monospaced (not sure if it's the write word in english, >in french we sayed "Police d'écriture à chasse fixe" >> >> I just wondered if anyone knows of a better way of creating an svg? >> Other that editing code from scratch, which is what I'm considering at >> the moment. >Try to open a already existing svg, like these present on darktable (on >my OS in on the directory /usr/share/darktable/watermarks/ ) >or open any other one existing on your system : (most of them don't have >any text : find / -xdev -name *.svg ) >> >> What did you guys use to make the included watermarks that come with >> DT? >inkscape >> >> -Dave >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
