At 05.02.2009 18:52, Michael Ross wrote:
Given the new "Standard - Outline" object already using cairo it should not be too difficult to create e.g. some plug-in (maybe even with pycairo) or a new DiaObject to produce something like shown in http://mces.blogspot.com/2008/11/text-on-path-with-cairo.htmlNope. WYSIWYG You can make text using the Text function and there are no secrets to be found. You might want to look at other programs that can do that make a screen dump and import the arced text as an image. I have done that in CAD systems, but not with Dia, Gimp, or Inkscape the open source drawing, picture and photo editing programs I use. I think it is a *very *non-trivial bit of programming to implement such a thing. I will be interested to see what other say about this.
To integrate such with all the text handling in Dia or even the "Standard - Text" object would indeed be "*very *non-trivial bit of programming" ;-)
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