How to Manipulate Text into Shape?

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(12-18-2017, 10:59 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Both that code and mine suffer from the same deficiency, they don't handle perspective: the smaller the letter gets, the narrower it should be. For a general path that could be fairly hairy but if the target is text it could be approximated by computing a perspective transform for each character.

Unless applying  a perspective transform after the path has been bent gives acceptable results...

But we dont need perspective. That is even a different LPE and Extension in Inkscape.
We just need an easy way to warp text into several shapes, like an arch or a flag.

   

   

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I was wondering.... when i was a teenager (so before personal computers, lol) i used a grid technique to enlarge images with pen and paper.
It must be possible to draw text to a warped grid that has the required curvature with the Bezier Tool as long as its simple text.