How can you put text wrapping the bottom curve of a circle without it looking all weird? (See Below) The letters just don't want to place correctly. Is there a way to fix this without doing each letter one-by-one?
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Amy, there are a couple little things about 'Fit Text to Path' tool that can give you headaches.
First of all, when you wrap text on the bottom of the circle, you will have to spread your kerning out a little bit to match the top. I already know it's gonna be squeeze, so I grab the 'Shape' tool, and drag my kerning out ahead of time before I ever fit it to the circle.
One thing also is to make sure your text is 'Center' justified before fitting it to the circle. Then you can grab the kerning handle and adjust it after it's already Fitted to Path, to make it match the top exactly.
Also, it doesn't look like a problem with this text, but you cannot stretch or condense the typeface before you 'Fit to Path'. That will cause it to not fit well.
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
Dont know about text wrap but here is how I do it
Type your word go to arrange, break text apart. Select one letter, click it once again to see the turn handles on the corners of each letter.
[ August 28, 2007, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: stein Saether ]
Posted by Paul Bierce (Member # 5412) on :
What application are you using Amy? Illustrator or Corel?
Sorry, I see now that it's X3.
[ August 28, 2007, 01:06 PM: Message edited by: Paul Bierce ]
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Something else is going on here that didn't look right to my eyes. I brought you design into my old ver 8, drew a circle and placed it over the lettering. The top line fits fine, the lower line is too low/far away from the cicle.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Amy, I think the easiest way would be to e mail me what you want and I'll do it for you in Illustrator.
I hear so much about how X3 is the cat's meow, but then keep seeing inferior results. I typed out your copy in seconds and it looked great in Illustrator.
It's so fast I'll do your curved copy at no charge. If I ever get to Florida you can buy me a vodka gimlet. Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Thanks everyone. I ended up doing it in my plotter software (Vinyl Express) which is Signwarehouses version of Flexi. I rarely use that program but got it to work a lot easier.
Thanks again.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
there are a number of options in the fit to text in X3.
Most of them are in the drop down menu's. Some are within the little X's on the ends of the words. But over all you can just about do anything with this feature..
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
Amy try it again. Remember that you can move each letter individually if you find it is warranted. But listen to what Jon told you. The spacing before putting it to path is most of your problem. And messing with the type first will screw things up. To do it letter by letter is defeating the purpose of having the tool in the first place. And it DOES work, give it another shot. It may take you a little extra time right now but it will save you time over the next few cracks at the bat.
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
Not to hijack the post, but Dave, how do you do it in Illustrator? I get so frustrated, I end up doing it in CorelDRAW and importing back to illy. There are a couple of other "simple" things that I can do in CorelDRAW, but can't figure out how to do them in Illy, or it ends up taking 14 steps.
Amy- another option is changing the text path baseline from the bottom to the top of the words. There are some customized options and menu elements that can be set to the toolbar that makes this very easy. I don't have it open in front of me, but I will see if I can locate the specific items for a tutorial.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Mike, I simply use the type on path tool. The only time I've had a problem with the kerning is when I use one of those crappy free fonts where the kerning is terrible on straight line type.
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