If the 'Create Extended Rectangles' option has a value oher than 'None' and if the text does not fit the given set of rectangles, then new rectangles will be created in the selected direction to fit the entire text. Now check the 'Flow Text in Boxes' and select horizontal and vertical alignment options. To have an aligned text, create rectangle(s) and select it (them) before invoking the render text tool. There are a number of options to taylor the rendering. To render a text string using the custom stroke fonts, use the Render Text extension. So after extracting the zip, there should be 14 files and one 1 folder called 'strokefontdata' added in the user extensions folderĪfter installation, the extensions appear under a new sub-menu 'Custom Stroke Font' under Extensions menu of inkscape. Double click this folder within the zip and extract all its contents in the extensions folder. For example: if your download file is inkscapestrokefont-master.zip, then opening the file will show a single folder called inkscapestrokefont-master.

Extract the contents of the folder within the downloaded zip file in the Inkscape user extension folder.

Locate the User Extensions folder, this can be found from the System option in Edit->Preference dialog.

Select Download Zip option and save the zip file to a local folder.

Click on the Code button above the repository list.Compatible with Inkscape versions 1.0 and 0.92 Installation Three new custom fonts (including a cursive one) are prebundled with the extensions. The fonts created with these extensions are compatible with the fonts used by the Hershey Text Effect (Copyright 2011, Windell H.

These extensions allow the users to create and edit their own stroke fonts (including non-english ones) and render text using them. Inkscape Extensions to Create Custom Stroke Fonts and Render Text Using Them

Aditional fonts for inkscape