3 letter circle monogram

[dragonlord666]

OK here is the tut..... might be a tad big to upload here so I"ll upload to my skydrive and give the link

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_7MJ9o ... sp=sharing

this sometimes goes wrong so shout if it's not working and I'll see if I fix it

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS LINK OUTSIDE THIS FORUM WITHOUT ASKING ME FIRST - THANK YOU

once you have this "basic" info you can experiment with different shapes - I know monograms are two or three letters, I wanted to see if four was workable - it is

the files I made during this tut are

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and

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Gaz

[papasue]

GAZ, followed your link to the tut but it says I have to have YOUR permission to see it. So I'm waiting to see if you PERMIT me to view it.

[mjgo]

When you have the time....it would be great.

[dragonlord666]

GAZ, followed your link to the tut but it says I have to have YOUR permission to see it. So I'm waiting to see if you PERMIT me to view it.

hummm....... OK I"ll see if I can fix it..... or I have to give each individual permission <boggle>
give me a few to find out what went wrong this time

Gaz

[dragonlord666]

OK try it now..... I think (fingers crossed) it was the anyone with the link button, it did not register

Gaz

[papasue]

Works NOW! off to play with it.

TKS

[mjgo]

You are FANTASTIC!! Thank you so much....I'll have a busy afternoon trying this. I was trying to use nodes to make the letters fit the shape. You way looks so much better. Thanks again!

[dragonlord666]

glad you find it worth it

all that should be able to be done in scal - you just need to find the corresponding commands like:-
inkscape path>exclusion = scal path>back minus front

Gaz

[mjgo]

I seem to be having a problem when I get to path>exclusion. I don't know what I am doing wrong, but it isn't working for me. Maybe tomorrow...I will try again.

[dragonlord666]

let us know what is going wrong and we'll see if we can work out why.

one thing that can happen is the shape is not a path (the info bar at the bottom of the screen says one of the objects is not a path)
this normally means something is grouped - just select objects and look at the bottom bar, if you see it say group of X objects that's most likely the one causing the problem
or you can just select everything and object>ungroup - just be careful when moving things and this can leave bits behind like the centre of letters like "e" or "B" or "O" etc

Gaz