A friend asked me to help him produce a logo and some other stuff from a pretty rough sketch he made. I told him I would try.
It was a painful experience. That is, I had to use a combination of LibreOffice Draw, GIMP and Inkscape. The latter was primarily because it was by far the simplest tool for pasting text and making it follow the curves of the circles. GIMP’s method was so convoluted I didn’t understand it — at all. LO Draw had the same idiot word-art stuff you get from the big named software houses in their word processors and just about as useless. Those require a level of skill and patience I’ll never have, nudging and adjusting a jillion times to get what you want. Inkscape was pretty easy, since any simple geometric shape you draw is already considered a “path” for something like text to follow. So the same image was built up in stages, adding one piece at a time and exporting to some commonly recognized file format. It took me two hours to produce this ugly thing.
Hope he likes it, because I am not trying again.
