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Delete the circles unless you want to use them as part of your design.ģD bag border box card Christmas clip-art corners couple Cricut cupcake holder cupcake wrapper dingbat DXF Easter eCAL eClips edge electronic die cutter envelope fall flourish flower folder Fonts frame freebie free DXF files free svg files gel pens gift bag Halloween heart holiday how to Inkscape lattice layered svg Markers milk carton nesting shapes page edge paper piecing pattern photo corners png SCAL SCAL 2.In my previous post, I showed you my favorite Connected Fonts for laser cutting and mentioned that unfortunately there are only a few fonts where really all letters connect to each other.Select the text and from the menu, Path/Union.If you want center text, add that, then use either of the circles or ovals to align the text.See these posts on Cutting Time for more on text kerning. The text may shift slightly and the kerning may need adjusting.If you want an oval instead of a circle, select both of the circles (but not the text), hold the shift key, and click and drag one of the top or side arrows until you like the shape of the ovals. If you want the text in a circle, go to step 17.My example isn’t the best, since the numbers are smaller than the upper case letters. Hold the shift and control keys, then click and drag one of the arrows until the bottom text is positioned against the inner circle. Click on the outer circle again to bring back the regular sizing arrows.Click on the outer circle again to bring up the skew/rotate arrows and rotate the outer circle until you like the placement of the bottom text.The text will move to the inside of the larger circle. Click off the circle/text, then click on the larger circle and click on the “Flip horizontally” button.The new text will be at the bottom of the new circle. Select the new text and the larger circle, then from the menu, Text/Put on path.
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Click on the “Select” tool and if the text needs to be resized, hold the control key and click and drag one of the bounding box corner arrows until you like the size of the text.You can now close the “Text and Font” window. If you want to change the font, with the text still selected, click on the Font tool and select the font you want to use, click “Apply”.
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Click on the Text tool then click in the work area and type your text for the top of the circle.Open Inkscape and click on the Circle tool then make a circle by holding down the Control key then click and drag the cursor in the work area.Here is how you would use Inkscape to put words around a circle. See this post from CleverSomeday for more info on word art from MS Word. Another way is to use a word processing program and create word art-this is especially good for text distorted into a shape. I prefer to do this directly in Inkscape. Another question is how do you have both the top text and the bottom text read from left to right. A common question on the SCAL forum is “How do you make text in a circle?”.