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Not a pretty picture. :O
The best I can offer is to use the space bar and Kerning to adjust the position of the characters.
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Iggy, I use a couple of standard Xara tricks:
- Slice Shapes
- Repel Text Under
- Text Area with centred Text
Create a Rectangle.
Draw your curve across it.
Slice Shapes
Separate the box pieces just over the width of a character.
Soft-group.
Repel Text Under.
Place over the Text Area. Note, all the characters need to have a return between them.
Adjust to fit.
If I want to change the curve, select the split box and use the Shape Tool to pick horizontal pairs of control points and move these to the new curve.
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I suppose you could also do it with a curved envelope though the text will not longer be editable
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I assumed text and curve needed to remain editable.
Acorn
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Acorn
Iggy, I use a couple of standard Xara tricks:
- Slice Shapes
- Repel Text Under
- Text Area with centred Text
Create a Rectangle.
Draw your curve across it.
Slice Shapes
Separate the box pieces just over the width of a character.
Soft-group.
Repel Text Under.
Place over the Text Area. Note, all the characters need to have a return between them.
Adjust to fit.
If I want to change the curve, select the split box and use the Shape Tool to pick horizontal pairs of control points and move these to the new curve.
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Acorn
BRILLIANT ... JUST BRILLIANT, what a great idea. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years.
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How did you get it vertical on the curve?
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Center the text then add one
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Center the text then add one
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return after each character
Thank you Gary,
Acorn
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BRILLIANT ... JUST BRILLIANT, what a great idea. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years.
Thanks Keith, when a get a niggle, I itch and scratch it away.
I had tried Text Inside a line converted to a shape and that is a no-go.
Acorn