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Troy Haas
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Every time I layout a design where the text is in a circle, it squeeze's the bottom of the letters tighter on the radius than the top's.

Is there a way to correct this???

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...What are you using? ...Illustrator doesn't do that.

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If you can increase your character spacing that will help, but the tops tend to look a little spacey.

[ March 07, 2006, 01:14 PM: Message edited by: Teresa Bostic ]

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Sorry
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Troy,

Although I'm not familiar with your particular program, the problem may be that you're using the distortion tool to place your text in the circle. Does the program have a separate feature to fit text on an arc? This should do it without distorting the text. If you can't find that feature, you should be able to fit text to a path and just draw a circle for your path.

Hope that helps.

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That distortion is correct
if you dont use it....the letters
will appear too mechanical
some programs give you both options
be happy with what you have
if the distortion is really noticeable..
that would indicate that your radius
is too small
back off on it and let it be gentle

[ March 07, 2006, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: Michael Boone ]

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Sometimes there's an option to spread the letters radially, or to have the letters all stand vertically, but still arched.
Often the two options will be in vastly different places in the same program.

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Can you display examples of what VMP and Illustrator each do that we can evaluate and compare?

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