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<p>Hi Phillip,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">So I have tried this before, and with Fabiens answer I did manage to get stretchable and rotatable text. However I could not figure out how to bend it, with this method. My solution was to use tikz inside of ipe. I am not sure if it is fine to attach files here, so I will just include my solution as a snippet below:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">These two lines need to go into the Latex preamble under Edit-> Document properties:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">And inside the document I added a minipage text object with the following content:
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><tt>\def\myshift#1{\raisebox{-2ex}}</tt></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><tt>\path [->,thick,postaction={decorate,decoration={text along path,text align=center,text={|\myshift|Parameterized Algorithms}}}] (One) to [bend left=45] (Two);</tt></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><tt>\def\myshift#1{\raisebox{-4ex}}</tt></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><tt>\path [->,thick,postaction={decorate,decoration={text along path,text align=center,text={|\myshift|in various Settings}}}] (One) to [bend left=45] (Two);</tt></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Some comments:</p>
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<li>I am not very familiar with tikz and copied most of this code from an example of bent text in tikz
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<li>The text does not adhere to its bounding box anymore and might get cut off, which is why I sometimes added a couple of lines with just a white dot (invisible on white background) as padding to the top.</li>
<li>The method basically defines two points and draws a bent path between them which has some text on it</li>
<li>To avoid overlap between multiple lined text, the lines are shifted down by 2ex and 4ex</li>
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<p>I hope this helps and best regards,
Soeren
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.01.21 13:53, Fabien Lafont via
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click on your text, then Properties, transformable text yes.
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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is it possible to generate in IPE a curved text? More
specifically: I <br>
have a spline and want the text to follow its shape. Can this
be done?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Philipp<br>
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