Just loaded inkscape 0.92.3 on my linux machine as a replacement for PaintNet.
I'm doing book covers and I need Impact Italic but it doesn't seem to be included on inkscape. Have I got an old release? I see above, where I am currently typing, an "Italic Button" that seems to work well. Where is it on the main page?
I've done a quick search of the forum, but nothing came up and the tutorials I saw on line must be out of date.
Thanks for this, PixelPest. First off, I have MS Fonts (Windows Fonts?), installed on this machine. I had a look at Geoffrey Lee's Impact Wide and I'm afraid it's not suitable for my purposes. The method you call Shearing is simple enough, but how do you control the amount of shear other than by eye. I'm doing book covers where a word or group of words must match in several areas of the graphic… ie. author's name; then at the top of the graphic some words of copy; then at the bottom, the title of the book. All have to be identical font (Impact) and all have to be italicized. This would be so easy if inkscape had an italicize function that would keep everything uniform.
This would be so easy if inkscape had an italicize function that would keep everything uniform.
Inkscape being a native SVG editor, it follows the style constraints of CSS, and honors the intentions of the type designers by disabling synthetic faux-faces. Much more here.
Once again, thank you for this. I'll have to play around and see if I can make this work. I hope there is also a faux bold Impact font as well. I use GIMP for photo manipulation and was looking for a simple text editor for adding and moving type around. I've installed and tried about six or eight packages and, it would appear, nothing is simple. inkscape is the best so far but "the style constraints of CSS" is interfering with my productivity and made things difficult. At this point, I am considering buying another computer with Windows installed... just for PaintNet.
Again, I appreciate your time and I'll try manipulating the type as you suggest and see how it goes.
I hope there is also a faux bold Impact font as well.
You can stroke text. Inkscape will also allow saving the stroke style to the text tool, or selecting-same (object type, color, etc) and applying copied styles.
Okay, I'm getting it but it is too slow and clunky. Thanks for your time but I think I'll go back to PaintNet. Just have to buy a computer devoted to Windows and PaintNet.
Beginners' Questions IMPACT Italic
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Just loaded inkscape 0.92.3 on my linux machine as a replacement for PaintNet.
I'm doing book covers and I need Impact Italic but it doesn't seem to be included on inkscape. Have I got an old release? I see above, where I am currently typing, an "Italic Button" that seems to work well. Where is it on the main page?
I've done a quick search of the forum, but nothing came up and the tutorials I saw on line must be out of date.
Thanks for your response.
kay-dee
Can´t speak for Linux but from what I read for Window fonts need to be installed for "all users" - macOS handles it in a different way.
"IMPACT" has no derivate aboard it´s just Regular
The author, Geoffrey Lee released an alternate font "Impact Wide" which includes an italic style.
Shearing objects is easy in Inkscape:
Thanks for this, PixelPest. First off, I have MS Fonts (Windows Fonts?), installed on this machine. I had a look at Geoffrey Lee's Impact Wide and I'm afraid it's not suitable for my purposes. The method you call Shearing is simple enough, but how do you control the amount of shear other than by eye. I'm doing book covers where a word or group of words must match in several areas of the graphic… ie. author's name; then at the top of the graphic some words of copy; then at the bottom, the title of the book. All have to be identical font (Impact) and all have to be italicized. This would be so easy if inkscape had an italicize function that would keep everything uniform.
Any further suggestions much appreciated.
Katie
The transforms dialog can be used for precise control of skew.
Inkscape being a native SVG editor, it follows the style constraints of CSS, and honors the intentions of the type designers by disabling synthetic faux-faces. Much more here.
Once again, thank you for this. I'll have to play around and see if I can make this work. I hope there is also a faux bold Impact font as well. I use GIMP for photo manipulation and was looking for a simple text editor for adding and moving type around. I've installed and tried about six or eight packages and, it would appear, nothing is simple. inkscape is the best so far but "the style constraints of CSS" is interfering with my productivity and made things difficult. At this point, I am considering buying another computer with Windows installed... just for PaintNet.
Again, I appreciate your time and I'll try manipulating the type as you suggest and see how it goes.
Katie
You can stroke text.
Inkscape will also allow saving the stroke style to the text tool, or selecting-same (object type, color, etc) and applying copied styles.
Thanks. I'll try and go from there...
The designer also offers a bold variant of Impact:
http://www.identifont.com/list?2+impact+3.9+OZ+1+3065+1+2802+2+3066+3+5M7I+8+OAV+12+2XZ+19+62V+28+471E+50
Okay, I'm getting it but it is too slow and clunky. Thanks for your time but I think I'll go back to PaintNet. Just have to buy a computer devoted to Windows and PaintNet.
Katie