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
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:
Hi Sally,
why would you need to do it line by line with Artistic Text? If you have a multi-line paragraph text shape and convert it to Artistic Text, it remains a multi-line text shape and looks identical to the paragraph text.
Best regards,Brian.
Geez...Brian, I am impressed! Great video!
Just one question: did you weld the concentric circle lines before dropping the text onto them?
no, I combined them (Ctrl+L). I haven't tried welding in this scenario, so I am not sure whether or not that would give the same result. This could possibly be the subject of a new macro; I am not sure how often people would need to do this though?
Hi Brian, Okay, your method gets my text into a curved shape - precisely what I wanted as I have done everything step by step and it's all good...only thing is, I can justify my text.
(Try doing the same excercise with Lorem Ipsum and you'll see what I mean)
My text is broken up all over the place and so I have to manually space the words to get them on the next line....so no justification can be done, it seems! Bugger!
Oops, it sure is a bummer! Let me give this some more thought and see if I can come up with something. If Jeff Harrison pops by, or Jack, one of those guys may have a better suggestion. I am taking this as a personal challenge now, so until someone else tells us how to do it, I will keep plugging away.
What did you think of Ariel's sample images? Was the curved one too raised off the page for your needs? Also, did you try applying an envelope effect to your text after converting it to Artistic Text? I haven't tried any of those methods yet, but I will.
Hi Brian,
Whilst Ariel's suggestion looks way-cool and has its place [somewhere], it warps the text way too much for what I am doing...if you go back to the original image at the beginning of the string, you'll see that the text just runs along like normal text, with no warping etc.. justified et al! Someone has done this before and I'm about ready to hunt down the designer who did this previous artwork to find out his/her secret!
Also Ariels method means that I would need to convert the text to curves before applying the envelope tool, and this is a big no-no (what if the client wants to change the content or something, then I have to re-do the text/graphic) Applying the envelope tool beforehand (when its still para-text) just changes the shape of the bounding box, so the whole suggestion hangs off changing the text to curves. :(
Flip, I cant believe that you are taking this on as a 'personal challenge'! I LOVE THAT!!!! So cool to know you exist and and are keen to help me solve this rather ridiculous, but pretty neccessary problem. I cant even find a solution with other apps like Indesign - seems no one has thought of this? A cool trick for X6 (Corel, are you listening?!)
Thanks again!
Sally
Very clever, Brian; now, why did you use a macro for your concentric circles when Contour does exactly the same?