Curving Text

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I am searching for process to curve text or align it with a curved circle or arc. Is this possible & how

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select a text, select a curve, select menu text > associate to a curve
(or whatever it is in english, since I’m backtranslating from my french version here -that’s the LAST command in the text menu)

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Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with
straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked something
like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to use the polygon
tool without turning the sides of the polygon into curves. I’m sure
I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t know what.

Julie

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On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with
straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked
something like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to
use the polygon tool without turning the sides of the polygon into
curves. I’m sure I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t
know what.

Tool > Pen

Click, move, click, move etc (Don’t drag after you clicked: that’s
how you curved it.)

To close, move cursor on starting point and Option click (The pen
will then have a little circle next to it.)

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–schremmer

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Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this without
bothering the list with such an elementary question? Couldn’t find it
on Help.

-j

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with
straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked
something like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to
use the polygon tool without turning the sides of the polygon into
curves. I’m sure I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t
know what.

Tool > Pen

Click, move, click, move etc (Don’t drag after you clicked: that’s
how you curved it.)

To close, move cursor on starting point and Option click (The pen
will then have a little circle next to it.)

Regards
–schremmer

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On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this
without bothering the list with such an elementary question?
Couldn’t find it on Help.

It’s probably there somewhere but the Help could take some help and
asking for help on a list is fast and easy (I have done it a lot for
LaTeX) so I would say don’t worry.

On the other hand–I just took a look:

Help > Drawing with Intaglio > Using the Path Tool

Regards
–schremmer

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Got it. Problem was, since I didn’t know what tool to use, I could
only search by function, and that turned up nothing. So yeah, I think
the list really might’ve been the only way to go. Sometimes I wish
someone would sit down and write a real manual . . .

-j

On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this
without bothering the list with such an elementary question?
Couldn’t find it on Help.

It’s probably there somewhere but the Help could take some help and
asking for help on a list is fast and easy (I have done it a lot
for LaTeX) so I would say don’t worry.

On the other hand–I just took a look:

Help > Drawing with Intaglio > Using the Path Tool

Regards
–schremmer

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hi guys,…
i am new in this forum,…
i found that it is very helpful for me because it contains very informative posts and sharing s,…thanks

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still - cannot repoduce it. (to curve text or align it with a curved circle or arc)

I can draw with the Path Tool, ok

but how to associate a line of text with the path?

this is the question…

Hope someone can jump in and throw in a rope :slight_smile:

bw, Omar K N

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Select text and path and go main menu “Text” last entry: Path binding-> Bind Text To Path.

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Thank you Frank,

Yes that works!

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I’m considering buying Intaglio, and have been trying different things that I often need, in the trial version. I also can’t figure out how to align text with a curve. I can find “path binding” in the Text menu, but no matter what I do it’s greyed out.

I have a line of text and I’ve tried with an oval, an arc and a curve drawn with the pen tool. Select them both, and it’s still greyed out. What do I need to do to make the command usable?

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Can´t reproduce were you stuck as this is pretty straight forward.:

  1. draw a line or curve with the bézier tool or the pen tool.
  2. generate some text with the text tool.
  3. select both and go menu->text->path binding - bingo.
    Nothing more - nothing less. Use “path bias” to adjust the text on the path etc.

Cheers

Frank

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Time to bump the thread.

Is there any way to bind the TOP of the text to a path, rather than the base? There is a way of fiddling this, but it looks awful.

Once the text is bound, I can’t really seem do much. It would be nice to be able to move the text along the curve, at the moment I am having to continually bind and unbind, cutting the curve until the text starts at the right place.

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Seems you didn´t discover the “Text-panel” yet.
Hopefully this will make it a bit clearer:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5544/m1ua.png

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Better image: http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/9466/le2d.png

Cheers

Frank

PS: why is this thread quoted as: “Polygons?” ?

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To move text around a path, drag the Path Bias slider. It’s in the Text menu (Window>Text).

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Oh yes, didn’t notice that extra slider popping up.
Thanks

Max

On 14 Aug 2013, at 10:43, IanB wrote:

To move text around a path, drag the Path Bias slider. It’s in the
Text menu (Window>Text).

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