Digital technologies/Laser cutting/Vector graphics- Intermediate/Text features

Customizing text

Using the node tool, you can easily manipulate distinct letters of your text and vary their position, shape and color.

Once you have written something on the document, select the text and go to Path->Object to path and make sure the node tool, found below the Selector tool, on the left is chosen.

Figure 13. Customizing text

Then, you will be able to individually select the nodes present and make adjustments to the text. The following video, demonstrates how to use the node tool:

Put text on path

Instead of having a text on a straight line you can use make a path, and make your text follow that path.

1. Draw a path and your text on the same document, select both and navigate to Text, found on the top line.

Figure 14. Path and text

2.There, select, Put on Path

Figure 15.Path feature

And your text will follow the path you drew:

Figure 16. Text on path