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Briarview

Cutting text like a stencil

Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:40 pm

I want to make a birthday card. Is there any way you can cut out say B R A D like a stencil on the card. Sort
of cutting out in a reverse if you know what I mean. Sorry newbie so just learning. Thanks

~suv

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:38 pm

1. draw a rectangle
2. select text tool, write your text
3. align text object with the rectangle (e.g. center)
4. select text and rectangle
5. apply menu 'Path > Difference'
6. result: rectangle with text cut out

hth, ~suv

llogg

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:23 am

you may have to convert the text object to a path before applying the difference function.

~suv

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:42 am

I tested it before posting, and with a current 0.46+devel build it was not necessary to convert either the
text or the rectangle to paths before applying the 'Difference' command - I didn't test it with Inkscape 0.46
though ;-)

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When converting the text to path, I had to ungroup it and then - with all characters of the now separated
text still selected - apply 'Path > Combine' before I could use the 'Difference' command on both the
rectangle and the text path.

Another thing to note: For the 'Difference' command the text object needs to be 'above' the rectangle
(stack order).

hth, ~suv

briarview

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:13 pm

Thank you for the help. Really appreciated.

siafulinux

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:22 pm

~suv wrote:
1. draw a rectangle
2. select text tool, write your text
3. align text object with the rectangle (e.g. center)
4. select text and rectangle
5. apply menu 'Path > Difference'
6. result: rectangle with text cut out

hth, ~suv

Thanks so much for this. Was looking for a way to "cut out" text from a black background. The idea is that I
can print this out onto transparencies resulting in a black background with transparent text. Don't have any
transparencies with me right now to test, but I'm thinking this will work.

Thanks again!

syednayab

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:58 pm

Doesnt work for me,

Nothing happens as per the video, i am using .48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5la2ecROXaI

What wrong am i doing?

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Lazur

Re: Cutting text like a stencil

Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:42 am

syednayab wrote:
Doesnt work for me,
Nothing happens as per the video, i am using .48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5la2ecROXaI

What wrong am i doing?

That video shows more variatons, not a single cutting out.

So could you post the image you are working on, ad tell us where you got stuck?

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