Windows 10
Coreldraw 2022
I have attached a picture of text with an outline. I have stretched the text vertically and as you can see the outline width is fatter at the top of the text and thinner at the sides of the text. In past versions, I would go into the outline pen fly out, click a button and this would solve the problem no matter how much I stretched the text horizontally or vertically. I know that I am simply doing something wrong. I have searched on the forum and posted on facebook, but have not been able to find an answer. Thank you in advance for any coaching/help!!
It can be difficult to know what's going on just from a screenshot.
It might help if you could share the CorelDRAW file somewhere online, and provide a link.
Good advice. I have attached an Imgur link. Please let me know if this helps at all.https://imgur.com/BssBI2g
Sorry if I was not clear, but what I'm suggesting is that you might share the actual .CDR file.
I can see how things look from a screenshot, but I can't check things out in the actual document to try to figure out what might be going on to cause what you are seeing.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but I get an error when trying to attach the .CDR file to this chat system. I opened a technical support ticket. Thanks for your help
The forum system they are using here is not very flexible. I don't think it will allow a .CDR file to be attached, just based on the file extension.
If you want to attach it here, then you could try changing the file extension to .zip. I think that will work, as long as the file size is not too large.
Beyond that, you could put the file somewhere online, and provide a link to it.
Thanks for the advice. I just opened the file on an older machine with 2017 running and the outline fixed itself immediately after pressing the default button in calligraphy. It looks like a zip file attaches! Thanks againPressure Washing Plus Door Hanger 2023.zip
Hey, thanks for sharing that.
Just starting with your file, unchecking "Scale with object" gets it back to a uniform outline width.
When it comes to "Scale with object" and the nib Stretch and Angle, I think they work significantly differently with an Artistic Text shape than they do with non-text shapes.
As an example, if you start with your Artistic text, and then "convert to curves", then Outline properties show a nib that is stretched 43% horizontally.
As an exercise, I tried doing the same sort of job in CorelDRAW 2018, and I observed exactly the same behavior.
You might note that, in CorelDRAW, after asymmetrically stretching an Artistic Text shape, it still reports shape scaling on the Property bar as being 100% both horizontally and vertically. A regular object stretched asymmetrically would not show 100% for both directions there.