If you want to remove this warp of text then again go to Text menu and click on ‘Remove’ from Path option of scroll down list.Īnd text will get back to its original shape by leaving circular path on its place. Then rotate this selection for moving your text on this circular path at your desired point on path. Hold mouse click on this rotation arrow of boding box. Make click on this selection and you will have rotation handle around the bonding box of this selection. Now you selected text will wrap around this circle like this. Click on ‘Put on Path’ option of scroll down list of this menu. Now go to Text menu of menu bar which is at the top of the user interface of this tool and click on it. I chose 'Single,stretched' and 'Snake' for the effect shown here.Now take Select tool from tool panel or for quick switch to this tool you can press F1 key of keyboard.Īnd hold Shift key of keyboard then select both text and circle by clicking on them one by one. Then select both text and path together (using shift-click), Extensions|Generate From Path|Pattern Along Path. Select the text, then Path|Object To Path. This next one was described halfway down. This one is following the instructions at (with more explanation of LPE at ) It was made by selecting the text, ctrl-c, then select the path, then Path|Path Effect Editor, then choose Pattern Along Path, click ADD, then choose the 4th icon, 'link to path'.

(Even if they had worked they'd be less than ideal, as I cannot hand-tweak the text along the path the way I can with the above solution.) UPDATE: A couple more failures that are worth noting. But that is not important for this question.) I will then insert spaces and use Alt-left/right to add kerning. Shift+click of the path, so they are both selected.

Path|Reverse (so the text goes on the inside rather than outside).

Used circle tool to make an arc (set fill color to none).

Dragged the vertical arrow to stretch it out.

Is there a way to keep the stretched appearance when applying it to path? Or is there a workaround? it makes the T higher, but makes the g wider!) (Stretching vertically after assigning to the path does not apply the stretch to each glyph consistently.

I can stretch the text, but when I wrap it to the path it jumps back to its default size. I've got a short piece of text, and I want to stretch it out vertically, and then wrap it round a path.

Inkscape font on arc to path