Star Wars text

[sancyk]

Is it possible to stretch, squeeze, or otherwise distort a block of text so that it is narrow on top and wide at the bottom? Perhaps something like a perspective projection?

Thanks

[petevick]

I wouldn’t have thought so, you’d need desktop publishing software for that

[sancyk]

Thanks. I forgot to mention that this would be for exploded text, which is essentially just a bunch of vectors. Come to think of it, it’s a feature that could be useful for vectors other than exploded text.

[iOne_iTwo]

I ran into this post randomly - Yesterday.
Today, I had a need to make a 2D top down view of a complex surface that’s an angle to the view.
A shear feature would have done it.

Qcad does have a mx (matrix transform) feature that in theory can do it, but the it is not interactive a all:

2-D Matrix Transformations

Is it possible to apply matrix transformations to drawings in QCAD 3, without writing a script for it? At the moment I’m doing it in Inkscape (Object → Transform … → Matrix) and importing the results into QCAD using SVG files. Would be more productive and accurate to do it natively in QCAD. Thanks.

[CVH]

@ iOne_iTwo

2D Matrix transformation are functional.
It is not interactive by default.
For that, the matrix would depend dynamically on user input.
Look up on how to compose your 2x2 matrix.
Squeezing or otherwise distorting is not a 2D option.

For 3D projections you need at least a larger matrix.

Remind that QCAD is basically 2D.
The use of the third dimension requires ingenuity from the user.

Regards,
CVH

[sancyk]

Thanks for the suggestion. I can achieve some interesting effects with this feature but not the Star Wars effect I was looking for. I’ll see if Inkscape can do it now that I know the name of the function to look for. That said, I had decided to do something else.