Re: Aligning text along an ARC

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 05.02.2009 18:52, Michael Ross wrote:
> Nope.  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.
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.html

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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