I have a bunch of circles with wrapped text. Each circle has different text. When I go to rotate the text on one circle, it also rotates on some, but not all, of the other circles. I only want to rotate text on the selected circle. I thought that maybe I accidently cloned the objects when i made this file (a year ago), but I tried unlinking all the clones and that didn't fix it. So I don't think it was cloned in the first place. Attached are two screen shots, one shows with the following selected, curved text, inner circle and outer circle. Number in the middle is not selected. When I click on the handle to rotate the text, it rotates all the others (except circle #5). See other screenshot. I also attached my Inkscape file. What's doing on here? How do I unlink all this?
That's definitely a better technique. I'm still curious about the objects being linked.
When you move to center of rotation to the guide line, is the center snapping onto the line or are you just positioning it yourself close to the center.
Likely you cloned the group (ellipses and text), then broke the link to the parent(s), but that does not break the link to the original reference path for the text.
I have another question regarding the same file I attached in the original post. If I select all the circles with the logo and move them, they all move together just as I would expect. But if I do the same thing with the circles that have the names and numbers, the curved text doesn't move properly, it's all over the place. The circles and the numbers in the center move properly. A few circles the text stays with the circle. I can group all of them and then move them together. Any idea what's going on with this?
It comes back to the text-on-path referencing the original circle (the exceptions being 5 through 12 and 17; they are already are referencing their respective circles).
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I have a bunch of circles with wrapped text. Each circle has different text. When I go to rotate the text on one circle, it also rotates on some, but not all, of the other circles. I only want to rotate text on the selected circle. I thought that maybe I accidently cloned the objects when i made this file (a year ago), but I tried unlinking all the clones and that didn't fix it. So I don't think it was cloned in the first place. Attached are two screen shots, one shows with the following selected, curved text, inner circle and outer circle. Number in the middle is not selected. When I click on the handle to rotate the text, it rotates all the others (except circle #5). See other screenshot. I also attached my Inkscape file. What's doing on here? How do I unlink all this?
I'd probably go this way:
That's definitely a better technique. I'm still curious about the objects being linked.
When you move to center of rotation to the guide line, is the center snapping onto the line or are you just positioning it yourself close to the center.
Likely you cloned the group (ellipses and text), then broke the link to the parent(s), but that does not break the link to the original reference path for the text.
How do you un-clone the group?
Usually I use the button, but there is Edit>Clone>Unlink clone (Shift-Alt-D).
If you'd like to attach the text to the unlinked circle:
I have another question regarding the same file I attached in the original post. If I select all the circles with the logo and move them, they all move together just as I would expect. But if I do the same thing with the circles that have the names and numbers, the curved text doesn't move properly, it's all over the place. The circles and the numbers in the center move properly. A few circles the text stays with the circle. I can group all of them and then move them together. Any idea what's going on with this?
It comes back to the text-on-path referencing the original circle (the exceptions being 5 through 12 and 17; they are already are referencing their respective circles).