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.
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.
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.
I just had a bit of a play around and there is definitely no easy way out in CorelDaw. Photo-Paint can warp text with its Shear filter, but then it becomes rasterised. Photoshop can warp text and keep it as text within Photoshop, but it becomes rasterised as soon as you copy it to the clipboard and paste into Draw. I haven't tried importing a PSD file though. Actually, I forgot to try Paste Special too. If you worked at a high enough resolution then maybe you could get by with rasterised text for a small area, as in your diagram. The following samples are both low res (72dpi) images; I suspect they would be too distorted for your needs:
I could probably do some extensive modification to a macro I have and make it break a whole text block into characters and then arrange them around multiple paths (using some tricky mathematics based on length of paths, etc.), but for the amount of work it would entail there are probably not enough people needing the feature. The following video shows how the macro can make letters use the complete path rather than just sitting on one part of it like Fit Text To Path does: