Hi,
I am quite new to inkscape and was wondering if there is a way to create a text outline which duplicates the original text rather than giving it rounded corners like the red one in the picture below?




TIA

Welcome to the forum!

I can think of 2 or 3 ways to do it.

1 - Find an outline font. Then you could give the characters a fill and still have an outline/border, and use any colors you want.
2 - Duplicate the text, make it a little bigger (by the amount of the width of the border that you want), and move it behind the original. It's a way of faking a border, but probably the least preferrable of these 3. (Some fonts won't behave properly for this.)
3 - Use a Stroke on the text.

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Thanks brynn, I was playing around with the stroke method but it wasn't looking right when I sent it to my plotter software. I have since found a work around where I create the text then make 3 copies of it. Then I applied the stroke to one of them then selected that and another and centered v. and h. then Path, Union (Ctrl + +). Then seleted that and the last copy then centered v. and h. again and it works perfectly if not a messy work around.

Thanks again for your help.

You're welcome. Oooh, I didn't realize you were using a plotter. But I'm glad you got the effect you were looking for