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!
Here is a video showing what I described in my last post. I cheated with the concentric circles and used a macro:
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 Ariel,
I really like your curved image...it looks like the text is lifting off the page. I will have to use that one day.
Best regards,Brian.
OT from this thread: I have revised the Inner Shadow macro to work with all colour models, including spot colours and it now has presets where the user can store up to 7 favourite shadow colours.
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
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.