I have a circle and I want the text fitted to the bottom of it, but the right way round so you don't have to stand on your head to read it <G>
I used to do this in a very old version of coreldraw, but blowed if I can see how to do it in X3! Somebody please enlighten me!
Jill
It was easier in older versions of Draw. There may be a more elegant method in X3, but the brute force method is to:
1. Fit text to path.
2. Mirror the text Horizontally and Vertically.
3. Set the Horizontal Offset to push the text to the bottom of the circle.
4. Play with the Distance from Path setting to get the placement right.
-Mark
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As long back as i can remember, (started with version 3), the bottom text kerning has always been squished. (technical term)
Just select the text, while still attached to the path, and adjust it with the Shape tool.
Frankly, I'm amazed that you've never experienced this before.
Maybe because we can now stretch the text vertically without distortion, you're noticing it more.
In older versions, if you didn't enlarge the text in proportion, you were sunk. Vertical only stretches were out of the question.
When X3 revamped the fit text to path process, I was in heaven!!!!
Whoa, Paul.........why go thru all that trouble?
Click on the shape tool and slide the right arrow. Two clicks and you're done.
At worst, click on the shape tool and adjust the corresponding control text nodes manually.
Either way, total time is a few seconds. Total clicks are minimal.
Curious why you think that you need to go through all that fuss?
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