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Title: Letter Inside Letter with sharp lines
Post by: Cheers_To_You on February 15, 2016, 05:09:28 AM

I am trying to do a layered vinyl decal and need to shrink the letter to a smaller size inside the larger letter with the same distance around it. Like .25 inch less than the original.
I tried stroke, but it rounds the edges
Tried to use the diagonal arrow but it does not do an exact shrink.
I tried to change the font size and it does match either.


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Title: Re: Letter Inside Letter with sharp lines
Post by: Espermachine on February 15, 2016, 06:39:56 AM

Maybe this technique is helpful ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPd-gCW5m8

Title: Re: Letter Inside Letter with sharp lines
Post by: brynn on February 17, 2016, 05:30:36 PM

I think you might be on the right trail, at least for 1 solution, using the stroke.  Actually, using the stroke is how to avoid the rounding that can occur with....perhaps, arguably, the correct solution, which is path offsets (Path menu > Inset, Outset, etc.)  So I'm not sure what you mean about the stroke making it rounded.

Before I make an example/tutorial for you, is the font you used free?  Can you give me a link to download it?  Otherwise I'll use something similar.

Title: Re: Letter Inside Letter with sharp lines
Post by: Lazur on February 17, 2016, 10:23:30 PM

Keep an eye to the join style, use miters instead of rounded corners.