ooops! sorry folks put this post under Photo Paint by mistake, my fault, sorry.
Hi all
I have had such excellent help from you guys, and need a bit more if you can.
I produce wall clocks and find Corel Draw X4 really good for what I want, but still going through a learning curve. Have a need for a particular technique which escapes me.
If you look at the picture above you will see the 'fit text to path' following the top curve. Doing that is so simple but what i would like on some of the clocks because of the background if filled with a photograph is a solid background to the text, i.e. white if a dark photograph or black if a light background with of course the opposite text colour to make the words stand out.
What I am looking for is a way to do the text discussed above with a solid background but on a curve as in my example. Have spent a bit of time on this, but cant work it out, can anyone help?
If you feel you can and i am sure there is a way, just my lack of knowledge that foils me, I would welcome your help.
Many thanks
Kind regards
Phil Allen
Are you looking for something like this (attached)?The curved background is inside a powerclip, and the powerclip container is part of a circle (pie).This makes it very easy to adjust the starting and ending angle of the background, without having to recreate it for every new layout.Take a look at it and I think you'll understand what I mean.
Look attached file, you can use my version or follow bellow instructions.
With Ronny's guide I came up with what I think is the best solution as far.
Make a perfect circle.
In Basic Shapes choose the Arch.
Duplicate first circle and make it concentric, this one is only used as guide for Text on a path.
Select text tool and point cursor onto inner circle and generate text.
Adjust text and Arch to required size and colour you are done.
Regards
Oscar
London
CorelDRAW is my Hobby!!!
oscar said:In Basic Shapes choose the Arch.
Jack's method using Text to Curves is valid only if Phil is going to use the file once but I guess he will use it often to rename his Wall Clocks according to his clients needs.
For that reason alone it is not in his best interest to convert Text to Curves, as he obviously destroys the text attributes and he needs the text alive for the next client clock face. He can still manage outline thickness and fills as required.
Of course you could alway convert the Text to Path to curves and add a contrasting outline. I would use outline behind fill in this case.