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!
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.
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.
Hi Sally,
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:
I know this is a slightly old post but there is a quite easy way to do this.
This example leaves out a lot of basic steps because I assume you understand things such as how duplicating objects works and so on. If you don't understand what I'm trying to express beat me up and I'll provide a more detailed explanation.
Start by drawing a horizontal straight line. Convert it to a curve. Shape it to the arc you want.
Take note of its center point. CTRL D to duplicate the line. Reposition it below the first arc. The distance you position it will be determined by how far apart your line spacing is going to be. Go to the property bar and set it's center position to match the first line. Shorten it by say a quarter of an inch (only for illustrative purposes, you can use any value you want)
Now make several more duplicates by pressing CTRL D. Each new duplicate will be positioned below the previous line by the same distance as the second line was below the first and each will be shorter than each preceding line by a quarter inch (or whatever amount you specified). You now have a series of curves that mimic the shape of the text in your example.
Next type your text into either a paragraph or artistic text element. It doesn't matter because you will be cutting and pasting it shortly.
Next create a paragraph text element and size it to one line in height and make its length match the width of the endpoints of the first arc.
Duplicate the text element using CTRL D. Reposition this text element to line up with the endpoints of the second arc. You will need to shorten it a bit to match the length of the arc endpoints. Now start making more duplicates by pressing CTRL D. If you have done everything correctly you will end up with a paragraph text element on top of each of the arcs you made. They should be very close to the position and length of the arcs. If they are not then tweak their position a bit to get them where you want them.
Now go to the text you entered earlier, select it and cut it. Move to the first paragraph text element and paste the text. You won't be able to see all the text but don't worry. Next link each paragraph text element to the one below it. In case you don't know how, search help for combining paragraph text frames. Do this for each text element. The text you entered will flow through the text elements.
Now is the time to fine tune the position and length of the text elements.
Next step is to fit each text box to its path. Once you have done this you will have your text flowing just like it does in your example. You can now hide your lines and you're almost there.
The final step is to fine tune the spacing of the text in the lines so you don't end up with orphaned letters at the beginning or ending of a particular line of text.
It took me longer to type this response than it did to create an almost exact copy of your example.
hth
~w
How did you do the curved one on the right?! It's exactly what I'm trying to do!
Would really appreciate your help. I'm new to Coreldraw so detailed instructions would be fantastic!
Thank you!!!!
Karen
Hello Karen; Brian doesn't come to see us to often anymore. You could try clicking on his avatar and send him a email. And the post you are in is form 2011 using X4.
George