Does anyone know how to curve text within a shape, as paragraph text, not artistic text? (See my attached image.)
I have drawn the shape, inserted the text as paragraph text, but the text always wants to sit straight. I am so frustrated as I can find a workaround in either Corel or Adobe CS products. I have tried using artictic text in Corel, but have to do it line by line - and this brings other problems, such as I cant justify each line with each other, and sometimes a character jumps up relative to the other characters and the entire paragraph does not taper in...so this is not a solution, apart from the fact it will take me FOREVER to insert line by line....I would like to treat the text as a multiple line paragraph, and follow the shape.
So, to all you brilliant designers out there....PLEASE HELP!
Thanx!
SallyS said:Does anyone know how to curve text within a shape, as paragraph text, not artistic text? (See my attached image.)
What you need if to use the Envelope tool. Seem that you're using Fit Text to path.
Also, you can convert to curves the text if you want
SallyS said:I have drawn the shape, inserted the text as paragraph text, but the text always wants to sit straigh
Of course. You can use Artistic text instead.
SallyS said:I have tried using artictic text in Corel, but have to do it line by line - and this brings other problems, such as I cant justify each line with each othe
only if you use Fit Text to path, but with Envelope you don't have this problem.
You can do all in one, just press enter at the en of each line (including the last one). You can justify the text (ctrl+J) in the same way of the paragraph text
just as fun
This unfortunately does not produce the right results.
The envelope tool changes the shape of the outer bounding box, but the text still sits in a straight line - the actual text does not curve in the same line as the top of the bounding box. And if you convert to curves, and then apply the envelope tool, the text deforms/warps at the top and bottom, and does not look like plain old paragraph text.
Your second comment, using artistic text if fine if it is a single line of text, but this is a paragraph of text (multiline). Doing it line by line is insane because of the time it will take and also I mentioned problems before - 1. Cant justify, 2. Text paragraph does not taper towards the end and 3. Some font characters jump up (ie not a smooth word, but jumpy text)
This is what I DONT want: