intersecting word art question

[4-Aces]

Hello there my friends, I think that I am using a different version of Inkscape than what Travis did when he created the tutorial for intersecting word art. I am able to keep up until I get to the kerning stage....after you get the letters where you want them you select and then go to object and ungroup. Here is where I hit my first snag. When watching the tutorial there is a square around each letter....on mine there is not, nothing happened. I tried union nothing. I am able to move the line, so I figure I will keep going. I can go as far as when I need to duplicate the family names, I duplicate pull down the orig. exposing the copy. I select the copy go to path, and select dynamic offset, then you grab the small diamond shaped object to widen the text......stop, there is no diamond. I can go no further. This same type of thing happened when I was going thru the portrait tutorial the simple fix was losing my newer version of Gimp and installing the older version. I suspect that might be the case here. I am using inkscape 0.923. What are your thoughts? Is there a different version I need to get? Thank You Gang.

[don in brooklin on]

After you got your letters okay did you go to Path then object to path.

Then Object - ungroup

Path - Union.

then when you do the dynamic offset you should see the diamond.

 

PS I use 92.3

Edited May 5, 2019 by don in brooklin on

[4-Aces]

Don, yes I did, but I will try again mabey missed or something. I will do it exactly how you said. Thanks, I will let you know.

Ok, first off I don't think that I did path then object to path. so I did this time and followed your advice and again the squares never showed up, but what is really weird and I wondered about this before is the line is David and Sheree well the and disappeared. It did that before but I thought mabey I didn't put it in there or something.

 

Edited May 5, 2019 by 4-Aces

[don in brooklin on]

Sorry that didn't work.  It is important to get the letters into a path for the dynamic offset to work.

Attached is an article by one of the members that may help.

Let me know if you are still having trouble and maybe we can share the svg and we can get it done.  Once you do one it seems easy.  

I am going out for awhile and so let me know by tonight and I'll be glad to give you a hand.

 

 

Inscape Intersecting Word Art 101 (1).doc

[4-Aces]

Thank you Don. I will play some more when I get back home I truly appreciate your help

 

[Fab4]

8 hours ago, don in brooklin on said:

After you got your letters okay did you go to Path then object to path.

Then Object - ungroup

Path - Union.

then when you do the dynamic offset you should see the diamond.

 

PS I use 92.3

Hi Don:
Correct me if I'm wrong - Your description above is right but before you DYNAMIC OFFSET, I think you have to duplicate what you have
On the Duplicated  copy, this is where you do the DYNAMIC OFFSET
Fab4

[4-Aces]

Thanks to Don I HAD SUCCESS woohoo LOL thank you again buddy