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!
Brian
Have you tried Alt+Virtual Segment Delete tool ? enhancement since SP2.
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?
leunam12 said: Very clever, Brian; now, why did you use a macro for your concentric circles when Contour does exactly the same?
Not clever enough, it gives no control where the words are split at the end of each line. The macro thing, well...I have the macro (which was really made for a different purpose) and I love playing with macros...lol. I spend enough time making them, so I may as well use them. If I was doing it manually I would draw the first circle, hit my +key and Shift+Drag a corner out and then Ctrl+D several times.
I am trying to think of a way to automate this task (and get it right at the same time) if at all possible.
Best regardsBrian.