I have a circle and I want the text fitted to the bottom of it, but the right way round so you don't have to stand on your head to read it <G>
I used to do this in a very old version of coreldraw, but blowed if I can see how to do it in X3! Somebody please enlighten me!
Jill
It was easier in older versions of Draw. There may be a more elegant method in X3, but the brute force method is to:
1. Fit text to path.
2. Mirror the text Horizontally and Vertically.
3. Set the Horizontal Offset to push the text to the bottom of the circle.
4. Play with the Distance from Path setting to get the placement right.
-Mark
Thanks once again - that's great! It was the mirror button that fooled me - I clicked on it and thought "EEEK"!
Two additional things that can be worth noticing while dragging the text around:
1. Note the red snap lines. They will help you position the text correctly sideways.
2. Note that the text snaps vertically to the baseline, ascender and descender (and also to multiples of Tick Snapping in Property Bar).Tip: While dragging text around, it is possible to lock the vertical placement by holding Shift.
Here's how I do it -
In order to watch the short streaming video, use Internet Explorer, NOT Firefox. "Text on a path" is lesson h -
http://capturecam.internode.on.net/gr8/Phil/?page=Corel_Training
Regards,
Phil