Inkscape Hints & Tips: Text to Path regressions in Inkscape 1.0
Channel: Peppertop Comics
Date: 2020-10-27

Inkscape 1.0 broke some useful shortcuts and functionality when using commands that convert text to paths. It also broke the 'Linked Offset' command more generally. This video looks at the problems, and details workarounds to restore the same functionality that was present in version 0.92.


Links:
https://ww.peppertop.com
https://www.patreon.com/peppertop
https://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-160/


Contents:
00:00 Titles

00:17 Introduction
01:10 Overview of Object to Path
02:17 Text to Path in older versions
03:56 Comparison of 0.92 & 1.0
08:51 Inset, Outset & Dynamic Offset in 1.0
11:44 Linked Offset
12:56 Linked Offset applied to text
13:45 Linked Offset in 1.0
14:45 Fixing Linked Offset with the XML editor
17:28 End Credits