Can we discuss GetCraft apps and the beginning of Slopware movement?

[Daniel]

@gotanidea Text is indeed the Achilles heel of VS. Here, the dev must spend time not looking at Adobe, but at Xara's handling of text. It is about as intuitive as text handling ever got in 30+ years within a vector app. Also, PL has a superb Text on Path feature that remains unrivalled. It allows you to mount a single curve with multiple lines of text and deal with them each individually. Text on curve distortion, baseline shifts, and repetition (where a single word can repeat multiple times around a curve) is handled with elegance found elsewhere. If I had a few hours, I can provide some highly valuable pointers on how to make it easier. I already have in the mega thread. The answers are in Xara.

[VectorStyler]

@Daniel I would be interested to know what to improve on the Text on Path feature.
There is already multiple line handling and bending the text along the path (instead of just aligning).

[monsterfox]

@VectorStyler https://youtu.be/-6Vf8d1rXGo
We still need a control handle to adjust the text spacing.

[Daniel]

@monsterfox: I agree. PL's text on path is vastly superior to even FreeHand's. You can see the options here.

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[monsterfox]

@Daniel Is this open-source software? I haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a go sometime.

[Daniel]

@monsterfox No it is paid software. But it has 30 day trial.

[Evaelo]

@Daniel said in Can we discuss GetCraft apps and the beginning of Slopware movement?:

PL has a superb Text on Path feature that remains unrivalled

What is PL?

[Daniel]

@Evaelo PhotoLine.

[monsterfox]

@Daniel
Is this the one? It looks quite different from the interface you showed.

[Daniel]

@monsterfox That's the one indeed. That's the default view. You can completely tear it apart and rebuild it.

Including entirely new icons. Let me know if you need help with this.

[Evaelo]

@Daniel
Ah, thanks. I also have it. Really interesting software. My wife use it though as her hobby is photography.