Sometimes clipping can help to get a certain effect (offset path on the inside), breaking apart, or even node editing.įor getting a fill on path stroked textobject i can see the following options:Ģ) Boolean Operation: Break Apart (this has the disadvantages that it also fills the "holes" in the letters so you have to fix them with more BO's, possibly with going into Outline Mode to find your objects)ģ) Fill the gaps with the Bucket Tool with a Grow of 1px, then 'Union' (actually quicker and less fiddly than option 2)Ĥ) Node editing - for simple objects just delete the nodes on the insideĥ) reverse path - this is like option 4: select the nodes of the hole you want to fill and reverse the path You warp text into an arch (or other shape), then expand.Īs tylerdurden already pointed out, the way you do it in Inskcape is by layering objects. You offset a path inside or outside, then expand.
The closest Inkscape has to expanding is converting an LPE effect into a path. There is no Expand in Inkscape, because it doesnt need to.Īs far as i understand expanding means vectorizing or finalizing a filter effect. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me out! Can't figure out how to do it without deleting my red fill in the process. I have some red text with a blue stroke outline. I can't seem to find how to do this in Inkscape. In Illustrator all I had to do was use the expand function and it would convert my text to a shape and then convert my strokes to fills. I feel like I must be missing something that should be very obvious. I have searched the internet for over an hour and have not been able to find an answer to my simple question, nor have I been able to find anyone asking this question, which surprises me because it's a very basic function that I use every single day in illustrator. I am entirely baffled as to why you would want it to automatically delete your fill but I am still trying to figure out how to do this properly. I thought I must have done something wrong, or it must be a bug, so I went searching online and found that this is apparently what it is supposed to do. So thinking logically, I then went to "Stroke to Path" and I was shocked to see that while it did accomplish the job of expanding my stroke to a fill, it deleted my original fill! So in other words I was left with only the expanded stroke.
All it seems to do is convert text objects to shapes, which is good because I needed that but the stroke was still a stroke and not a shape. I quickly found the "object to path" function and used it, but it did not expand my stroke. So I am coming from Illustrator trying to learn how to use inkscape as an alternative, and everything was going fine until I went to "expand" (I guess this is an Illustrator term) my object.
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