[solved] Perpective changes the direction of reading

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dubis
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[solved] Perpective changes the direction of reading

Postby dubis » Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:22 am

Hi,

I'm beguinner in Inskape. I'm using Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939 version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS. I understood how to do a perspective.
    1.All elements you are going to transform must be paths
    2. All elements you are going to transform need to be grouped or in a combined path
    3. You must define a "target shape" to determine the bounds of the transform that is a 4-sided polygon who's points are drawn clockwise starting from the bottom left corner.
    4. You must select both the paths you will be transforming and the target shape by selecting your paths first then shift-clicking your target shape second

My problem is my sentence is not in the good direction after I applied the perceptive mode as extension. See the file I attached to this post. In my example the word perceptive began a vertical word.
What I missed?
Could you help?
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hulf2012
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Re: Perpective changes the direction of reading

Postby hulf2012 » Fri Feb 26, 2016 2:39 am

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Your generating path, the first node was the top left corner.
In my case, my generating path (with red stroke in the attachment), the first node was the bottom left corner.

How We can see where is the first node of path?: With the path selected enter in node editing, after that hit tab key just once. The first node selected is the beginning of the path

Also, I changed the direction of the text path, but I think the problem wasn't there. ... And deleted a transform attribute on the layer element (using the XML editor)
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dubis
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Re: Perpective changes the direction of reading

Postby dubis » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:58 am

Thank hulf2012,

How did you know which node is the first?

Thanks

Moini
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Re: Perpective changes the direction of reading

Postby Moini » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:16 am

(@dubis: just a hint:

you can add the ppa to use the current Inkscape version with lots of bug fixes and new features
ppa: https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+ar ... ntu/stable
release notes of Inkscape 0.91: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... notes/0.91)
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dubis
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Re: Perpective changes the direction of reading

Postby dubis » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:03 pm

Thanks for your help


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