On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 06:50 -0500, Michael Ross wrote: > Write it horizontally, make a screen dump, rotate the image in some > other software, and put it back in as a picture is what I have done. > (I have a CAD program that lets me write text along a curved spline or > around a circle which can be useful.) With the picture insertion > method you are stuck with an opaque background around the text. You > can make the inserted picture go to the back and place other shapes > and vector entities over it. You can't do everything this way, but it > is useful every now end then > > I have been messing around with Inkscape (open source photo editor, > and graphics) and it is better at this sort of thing. It does > transparent overlays very nicely. I think I remember you can rotate > text in Inkscape. Unfortunately, I don't have it on this PC to check > it out.
Inkscape allows many manipulations of text, including text along arbitrary paths. Dia does not, yet, but I'm planning to put a Google Summer of Code project up for it. > If Inkscape had easily customizable stencils... Well, if Dia had > easily customizable stencils... Really, I am here for the stencils. > MR -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
