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!
I tried to use Envelope tool in CorelDraw by converting the text into curves first but It didn't work. I think you can use the Warp tool in Adobe CS products.
Thanks Ben, both methods warp the text, and the text should not be 'warped' as such - just plain old text running along a curve in the normal paragraph fashion - the font should not be altered in any way.....soooo frustrating!
Hi Sally,
one way to achieve what you are wanting to do is as follows:
Just make sure you have enough path to hold all of your text or you will have a fight with the program! Also, if you simply select the text box and tell it to fit to path - you get text running in the wrong direction and upside down. It is cleaner and simpler to follow my step 10 above.
Below is an image of my combined path with the V deleted and the text fitted.
Here is a video showing what I described in my last post. I cheated with the concentric circles and used a macro:
Boy Oh Boy! I was afraid of this! Surely the powers that be at Corel Corporate or Adobe Corporate must have come up with a better solution! Brian, if this is the only way, then I better get cracking! Thanks! :( Sally
Brian said:one way to achieve what you are wanting to do is as follows: draw an angled line marking the left alignment of where you text needs to run duplicate that line and flip it horizontally by holding Ctrl and dragging the left centre handle to the right you should now have what looks like a giant letter V draw a small circle with its centre on the point of the V shape press the + key on your numeric keypad and drag a corner handle on the new circle to increase its size to roughly the line spacing you require for your text Press Ctrl+D several more times to repeat the process until you have more circles than you probably need Use your preferred method (I used the Virutal Segment Delete tool) to crop way all of the circles where they fall outside of the V delete the V. You should now have some concentric curved paths running where you wish your text to run. select all of the curves and combine them (Ctrl+L) I did a little experimenting for you and found the best results came from selecting all of the text and copying it to the clipboard and then placing my text cursor at the start of the outside curve until I got the text on path cursor. I then pasted the text onto the path.
Awesome. I've never thought of that method and therefore could never figure out how to do this. You sure know your stuff Brian.
Brian
Have you tried Alt+Virtual Segment Delete tool ? enhancement since SP2.
Andru Bruning said: Awesome. I've never thought of that method and therefore could never figure out how to do this. You sure know your stuff Brian.
Hi Andru,
as Sally found out, the only problem is that it gives no control as to where words break at the end of each line. I am only a casual user of Draw, to be honest with you, but I do like experimenting with it. I am trying to figure out a way of writing a macro for what Sally is trying to achieve, but I think it can only be done if I let the text break apart into separate lines of text.
Best regards,Brian.