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!
Geez...Brian, I am impressed! Great video!
Just one question: did you weld the concentric circle lines before dropping the text onto them?
Hi Sally,
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?
Best regards,Brian.
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.
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.