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See those red shapes. I want to crunch text BWT into the red area so that the text is still readable but deformed so that the red area is filled.
I have tried to use the black stroke-only version of the red shape as a bounding box (=a path effect) but it only makes a rectangular blob around the BWT without affecting its form.
Path effect Bounding Box maybe is not the right way or I do not understand how to use it. Any idea how do it right?
There are several methods possible.
You could use the Envelope Deformation path effect to distort text which has been converted to paths in Inkscape.
Another possibility is the Lattice Deformation path effect.
These are both available in the Live Path Effects Selector
Both these path effects are quite tricky to apply, so you will have to experiment. They're not perfect. These are also very new features in Inkscape, so hopefully the Inkscape devs will be able in time to improve their usability.
If after making the transformations there are still some wonky lines that you'd like to fix, you can do Path > Object to Path to remove the effects, then edit the paths manually.
There was at one time a Bézier Envelope extension. Unfortunately the extension doesn't work in Inkscape 1.0 as far as I know, at least I couldn't get it to work. I even tried to get this to work with 0.92, but no joy. Maybe install Inscape 0.48 and try it out. The extension is here. There's a good tutorial for using this extension on youtube here.
If you have access to Adobe Illustrator, it also has an Envelope Mesh feature which is a little easier to use. Although again still not perfect, and also can be quite tricky to use.
