Inkscape

textPath must be aligned within the length of the path

Bug #170995 reported by Pihentagy on 2005-11-22

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	Confirmed	Wishlist	Richard Hughes

Bug Description

Create a text.
Create a path (say a circle).
Link path to text.
Change text alignment.
See the incorrectly clipped text.

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Pihentagy (pihentagy) wrote on 2005-11-22: Clipped text (was hello world)

Clipped text (was hello world) Edit (2.9 KiB, image/png)

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Pihentagy (pihentagy) wrote on 2005-11-22: The resulting svg file

The resulting svg file Edit (2.6 KiB, image/svg+xml)

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Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users) wrote on 2006-04-14:

This clipping is entirely per SVG standard. Batik shows it
the same way.

What we need to change is make textPath alignment change the
anchor, so it's aligned within the length of the path
instead of around the starting point. So I'm moving this to
RFEs.

Hystrix (hystrix-) on 2007-12-19

Changed in inkscape:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

jazzynico (jazzynico) on 2013-12-02

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added: aligning text

Andrey (bobz-uc) on 2014-03-19

Changed in inkscape:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
status:	In Progress → Confirmed

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2017-03-02:

See also this comment from bug #170448:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170448/comments/2

To be considered:
Now that Inkscape has a GUI option for startOffset (>= 0.91) - how to prevent that an arbitrary offset chosen explicitly by the user is not overwritten by automatic adjustment of startOffset to keep the full text content visible based on the current alignment property?

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2017-03-03: