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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Agrajag on October 23, 2018, 07:46:51 AM
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I have a font whose stroke, by default, fills elements within the character itself. It's this one:
https://www.dafont.com/austie-bost-roman-holiday-sketch.font?text=THE+WHEEL+OF+FORTUNE
In the end what I'd like to do is get a black outline around the font (both the word PLANT and the number in the leaf) which I think of as the stroke. I've tried Object to Path and that's not letting me use Stroke to outline the text. It has to be because the "Stroke" in this case is complex and fills random lines within the font character itself. So playing with the stroke width and such doesn't get the expected result.
In the end I don't care how I get there as long as I have a border around those elements that I can thicken or thin to get just the right look.
What might I be missing?
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You'll have to delete all of those interior paths, if you want to be left with a stroke only on the outside. You might want to consider using a different font, so you don't have to do this. But here's what I would do.
- select the text
- duplicate it
- Path menu > Union (converts to path and combines all the letters together into a compound path, in one step)
- add a stroke to the duplicate
- remove the fill of the duplicate
- zoom in quite a lot, so that one letter fills up the whole screen
- using the Node tool, select large chunks of the interior subpaths/nodes (for example, on an "i" or "I", you could select the whole column of paths, by dragging a selection box)
- delete
- repeat until you've removed all the interior nodes
In the end, you might want to group the duplicate (or stroke object) with the original, so that they don't accidentally get separated.