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    Just a curiosity question concerning bending text. I am in the process of creating a greeting card that looks like an open book. I am attempting to get the text to generally run in a direction that follows the humped shaped that would be presented to the eye if you were reading a real book. Here is the problem. I can use either the brush tool, or the shape editor tool to create a line, convert it to an editable shape and then add text to it. It works great unless you have a lot of text that you want to add such as for example making an entry into a diary. So far the only thing I can come up with is to duplicate the original line as many times as I need to fill a page and then convert each line into an editable shape and then add text to it. As you can imagine, this is tedious at best. Am I missing some secret that will make this easier or am I just going to have to accept the fact that it's going to be a long tedious chore of adding a line, converting it to editable shapes, and then adding text. Any advice would be great appreciated.

    Thanks, Manny

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    Default Re: warping text

    You could look at AV Bro page curl. Rich

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    Default Re: warping text

    Assuming you are using Xara Xtreme?
    Try using the mold tool to shape your text object into any shape you desire.
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    Thanks Mike. worked like a charm

    Manny

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    Hi Manny,

    You can also use the fit text to curve feature. Just create one line, type your text and select both and fit text to curve. The text overflows but continues following the curve.
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    Is there an easy way to bend test in a arch or other shape to print on t-shirts?

    Thanks,

    Philip

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    Draw text - draw arc - select both - Arrange menu > Fit text to curve - clear line colour. (Pretty much as the above post) ...
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