I am trying to merge text to an object. I want to place text over an object and there will be overlapping. I want to merge the two together and then delete the part that is overlapping. Im not sure how to delete the overlap. Thanks.
Thanks for the reply. I tried doing what you said and it's doing the opposite of what I want. I'm wanting to cut this image out with a laser engraver and I want the name to be cut out in the middle of the ornament. I need to make a new path where each part of the name touches the circle, or maybe not a new path but that part needs to be deleted so it doesn't cut in a circle, it cuts around the name so it doesn't fall out.I hope this helps with my explanation.
Well of course, what you want is not even in the same ball park as what I understood from your description. That's why it's always better to show an example from the start.
I think I know an old tutorial for this, but I'm not sure if I can find it. Give me a few minutes, and I'll look for it.
Here's the issue I'm having though. The image I just did was with a circle and text I made in Inkscape, which worked. The ornament is an SVG image I got on Etsy. I'm combing the ornament image with path>combine, then path>break apart so I could grab the inside circle. It won't allow me, that I can tell, to try and merge them together so I can either do a Union or a Difference. Is it something I'm doing wrong or is Inskscape not allowing me to mess with an imported image?
Have you tried to break apart everything first, then put your text on it, select all in all layers, and then do path combine? Without seeing the exact svg files, it's hard to guess. (I'm not understanding why you would need to grab the inside circle.) The only thing I can think of if that doesn't work is that you may need to raise or lower some objects.
Well clearly you have a bunch of different kinds of stuff there. It sounds like maybe the circle was not a black stroke with no fill but maybe had a white fill. Or maybe it was combined with the rest of the ornament, which is not what I understood. I was only guessing about how the image was made, when I gave those instructions. If you could share the SVG file, we would know exactly how it's made, and we would not have to guess. Then we could give exactly the right steps to do what you want.
dean6767 did you ever figure it out? I am having the same issue. I bought an svg file from etsy and when I try to merge them (union) the middle goes black. I have made other things already but I drew the circle with the shapes myself and added text which worked. But it's not working with the svg file. Please help if you've figured it out. I'm still learning inkscape so it's tough.Thanks so much.
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I am trying to merge text to an object. I want to place text over an object and there will be overlapping. I want to merge the two together and then delete the part that is overlapping. Im not sure how to delete the overlap. Thanks.
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If I understand what you're asking, you can do that using Clipping.
There are a couple of other ways to approach this (assuming I understand correctly) if this isn't exactly what you want.
Thanks for the reply. I tried doing what you said and it's doing the opposite of what I want. I'm wanting to cut this image out with a laser engraver and I want the name to be cut out in the middle of the ornament. I need to make a new path where each part of the name touches the circle, or maybe not a new path but that part needs to be deleted so it doesn't cut in a circle, it cuts around the name so it doesn't fall out.I hope this helps with my explanation.
Well of course, what you want is not even in the same ball park as what I understood from your description. That's why it's always better to show an example from the start.
I think I know an old tutorial for this, but I'm not sure if I can find it. Give me a few minutes, and I'll look for it.
Well, I couldn't find it. But I can give you the basics.
If the text is already how you want it to be, where it overlaps where you want, then this should work:
If the text is not big enough, to overlap enough yet, we can tell you how to do that first.
When I do that it deletes the text but the circle is still there, although it does go around where the letter were.
I just did the same but this time I did path>difference and it did what i wanted.
Here's the issue I'm having though. The image I just did was with a circle and text I made in Inkscape, which worked. The ornament is an SVG image I got on Etsy. I'm combing the ornament image with path>combine, then path>break apart so I could grab the inside circle. It won't allow me, that I can tell, to try and merge them together so I can either do a Union or a Difference. Is it something I'm doing wrong or is Inskscape not allowing me to mess with an imported image?
Have you tried to break apart everything first, then put your text on it, select all in all layers, and then do path combine? Without seeing the exact svg files, it's hard to guess. (I'm not understanding why you would need to grab the inside circle.) The only thing I can think of if that doesn't work is that you may need to raise or lower some objects.
Well clearly you have a bunch of different kinds of stuff there. It sounds like maybe the circle was not a black stroke with no fill but maybe had a white fill. Or maybe it was combined with the rest of the ornament, which is not what I understood. I was only guessing about how the image was made, when I gave those instructions. If you could share the SVG file, we would know exactly how it's made, and we would not have to guess. Then we could give exactly the right steps to do what you want.
dean6767 did you ever figure it out? I am having the same issue. I bought an svg file from etsy and when I try to merge them (union) the middle goes black. I have made other things already but I drew the circle with the shapes myself and added text which worked. But it's not working with the svg file. Please help if you've figured it out. I'm still learning inkscape so it's tough.Thanks so much.
Can you check at Fill&Stroke ->Stroke->fill-rule if it's set to non-zero and turn to even-odd?