{"id":159,"date":"2007-02-05T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zofxare.com\/zofxare\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/glyphs-and-textpath-open-office\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T23:58:00","slug":"glyphs-and-textpath-open-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zofxare.com\/zofxare\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/glyphs-and-textpath-open-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Glyphs and TextPath, Open Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got some good tips from the <a href=\"http:\/\/xmlgraphics.apache.org\/mail.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">batik users group mailing list <\/a>on how to solve my pattern along a path problem. One tip involves using glyphs and textPaths thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carto.net\/neumann\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreas Neumann<\/a>. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carto.net\/neumann\/temp\/self_defined_glyphs_on_path.svg\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">example<\/a>. Played around a bit &#038; have gotten the basic idea working, need to tweak it though as far as glyph spacing. The other tip involves markers. Haven&#8217;t tried it yet though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">SVG<\/a> is very cool. There&#8217;s a ton of stuff you can do with it. One bad thing is you can&#8217;t link to an external <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">svg<\/a> element. Say you have a moon defined in one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">svg<\/a>. You can&#8217;t link directly to that moon element from another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">svg<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"> SVG <\/a>is still evolving though, so maybe in a future release that will be supported. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I get my income tax check, I&#8217;m planning on buying myself a laptop. Not sure yet what I&#8217;m going with though. My desktop is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Dell<\/a> I bought a little over a year ago. Adding <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Office <\/a>was an extra couple hundred dollars. I was on a budget, so I went with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/products\/works\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Works Suite<\/a>. That includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/word\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Word<\/a>. The spreadsheet program doesn&#8217;t support tabbed worksheets though. For me, that&#8217;s a problem. I decided to look into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">open office<\/a>. It&#8217;s free, I think open source too. That is a great product. It includes programs which are similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/word\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">word<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/excel\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">excel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/powerpoint\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">power point<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/access\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">access<\/a>. The spreadsheet program also supports tabbed worksheets. These imitation programs seem to do pretty much what the more expensive programs do, so when I get my laptop I don&#8217;t think I will even bother with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/products\/works\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Works Suite<\/a>. I&#8217;m just going to download the latest free, version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">open office <\/a>and save myself some money. Some of the best software is free. Stay tuned for links to other useful free software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got some good tips from the batik users group mailing list on how to solve my pattern along a path problem. One tip involves using glyphs and textPaths thanks to Andreas Neumann. Here&#8217;s an example. 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