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Most fonts explicitly state that you cannot transfer the font file to somebody else. When Designing LogosĪnother example of when converting text to a path is necessary is when you design a logo that contains text for a client or some other third party.Īs we’ve gone over in previous lessons, every font comes with its own usage permissions based on the license it came with. This sort of thing is only possible once a text object is converted to a path. However, after converting it to a path, we were able to alter its perspective and extrude it to make it look 3D. The name in the logo started out as a simple text object. One example of such would be a previous tutorial where we went over how to design an esports logo with Inkscape: When Creating Elaborate Text DesignsĬonverting your text to paths allows you to apply additional effects and alterations that can be used to create unique designs. Otherwise the design may become corrupted if the end user opens the file with the font embedded and they don’t have that font installed on their system. This means that a third party can open the document and the text will appear the same on their screen as it does on your screen. When you are finished with the text portion of the design, and you have proofread everything and are certain that no other edits will need to be made to the copy, converting the text to paths finalizes the “design” of the individual letters. In a tutorial from last year we went over how to design print-ready book covers in Inkscape: To put things into context, here are a few examples from tutorials we’ve gone over in the past where converting text objects to paths was a necessity. It also allows you to add Path Effects - an assortment of advanced transformations that can be made to vector paths that otherwise could not be applied to text objects. Let’s address this.Ĭonverting your text to a path allows you to edit the structural properties of each individual letter as if it were a custom shape: Converting text to a path allows you to edit the nodes of each letter.

You may be curious as to why it is you would even convert text to a path in Inkscape in this the first place.

Nodes can be transformed individually, allowing you to shape the object (or path) however you’d like. In short, paths are objects that consist of a series of coordinate points on the X and Y axis known as nodes.