Hi All,

I'm your worst nightmare, a total newbie looking for some guidance if anyone is willing to help me out.

See these links of wood puzzles I cut, breeds of dogs with the name of the breed being the puzzle pieces. I do these from existing patterns. What I'd really like to be able to do is offer my customers an option for me to do their pets name instead of the name of the breed.

http://screencast.com/t/wrpwj0UX2lI

http://screencast.com/t/dDdnET2rbH


For example a Jack Russell named Willie. So what I need to be able to do is have the various dog breed body shapes saved, pull up the appropriate shape, type in WILLIE and have it fill in the shape/form in place of JACKRUSSELL

Any guidance would be appreciated... especially if it simply can't be done, just let me know.

Thanks in advance,
Iggy

Sorry, it simply can't be done. Or, at least, it can't be done simply.

By converting the text to a path, and performing some node editing it's possible to do it as a manual process, but I can't think of any straightforward way to automate it in Inkscape in the way that you want.

Take pen&paper first and see how far it will take you.

Cheers
P.

It has been discussed before and you may find more about it: here!

That could be the starting point, but you`ll need further customization due to the technical demands.

This is one of those tasks that would be almost impossible to automate satisfactorily but is very quick and easy when done manually. Use the pencil tool and it should be very nearly as fast as writing it out on paper