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Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:35 pm
by sunnshinne352
I've had this issue a couple times and I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is. I've created a design to be cut on vinyl in inkscape. Checked the outline view, everything looks great. Saved as paths and imported to scal, where my font is all offset. Dots to i's aren't over the i, the center of a lowercase d isn't inside the outline of the d. What am I doing wrong? I don't want to have to attempt to recreate the entire design in scal?
BTW using scal 2.

Please help! I'm sure there are some more experienced users out there that know what my problem is.
Christen

Re: Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:49 pm
by Sweetness4713
You need to use path/union...

Re: Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:19 pm
by firstcut
Yep, that's a known issue with inkscape .47 and SCAL. If path>union takes away internal paths that are supposed to be there use path>exclusion on them instead.

Re: Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:23 pm
by sunnshinne352
So I uninstalled .47 and installed .46. Only now I can't change fonts, even when using the dialog menu, it won't let me.

If .47 skews my fonts, and .46 won't let me change them, what's the best solution? Should I reinstall .47 and try using path>exclusion? What if that doesn't work...I'm kind of losing my mind here.

Christen

Re: Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:13 pm
by firstcut
You can change fonts in .46, but not with the pull down menu. You need to click on the T icon to open the text attributes window and change the font that way.

Re: Help! Font changes when imported into scal from inkscape.

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:43 pm
by HeatherM
Which version of SCAL2 are you using? They fixed this problem with one of the updates, but I don't remember which one.