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AnointedHands wrote:

lisa_anderson77 wrote:I am new to this board so hello everyone! I have downloaded inkscape today and it came with soooooo many files that were unzipped I am having trouble finding the install or setup file. Can someone point me in the right direction.

when you download the file for the program, I think it gives you the option to "run" or "save". Just choose run and the program will install.

Thanks for the help, I could have sworn that I picked run the first time because I always do but I must not have because I did the download againand now its installing.

OK, I downloaded inkscape, made a title and saved it. Went to SCAL, imported it, and voila -- nothing. Red box comes up empty. Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? I may be trying to sprint before I take the training wheels off here, but I so want to try it...

Laurieinaz wrote:OK, I downloaded inkscape, made a title and saved it. Went to SCAL, imported it, and voila -- nothing. Red box comes up empty. Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? I may be trying to sprint before I take the training wheels off here, but I so want to try it...

If you are just doing straight fonts, it might be easier to use SCAL. Using Inkscape, there are a few more steps to take.

• Type the text
  Select the text (will have surrounding box with arrows)
  Go to Path/Object to Path
  Go to Path/Union

Then save and it should appear

That's what I did. What I came up with when I imported it was an empty box.

Sorry it didn't work for you. I tried saving a file by just typing a word and saving it and I ended up with a blank square when I imported it into SCAL.

When I followed the instructions I gave you, it worked fine.

Make sure when you go to object to path and Union that the text box is selected I did it a few times without and got the empty box but then went back and made sure the box was around the text and it worked great!

You are both genuises. I don't think I had the text box selected. How in the heck do you figure this stuff out?

Love that! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you this worked great!!!!!

Thanks for explaining the run instead of save! I just tried to download inkscape yesterday and couldn't for the life of me find an .exe file. I'll try again with the run option. I can't wait to play with it!