Up and Down the line.

OK, so I'm seen post about vertical text. I've seen post about how to curve text. What I can't find is info on how to curve vertical text. If I try to fit the vertical text to a vertical line that has been curved vertically, the text is automatically switched to look as if it were typed out horizontally and then fitted to the vertically curved line. Is there anyway to make the text stay in its vertical form and curve it to the line that way?

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.

Iggy, I use a couple of standard Xara tricks:

1. Slice Shapes
2. Repel Text Under
3. 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

I assumed text and curve needed to remain editable.

Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Iggy, I use a couple of standard Xara tricks:

1. Slice Shapes
2. Repel Text Under
3. 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

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BRILLIANT ... JUST BRILLIANT, what a great idea. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years.

How did you get it vertical on the curve?

Center the text then add one

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Center the text then add one

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return after each character

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Thank you Gary,
Acorn

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Originally Posted by ss-kalm

BRILLIANT ... JUST BRILLIANT, what a great idea. Wouldn't have thought of it in a million years.

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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

Thank you so much for the feedback.

Thanks a million for the information and the know how Acorn.

So whenever I try to "Join text to curve" this is what happens. What am I missing?

As far as I'm aware, you don't need to "join text to curve" the deformation is created by the "REPEL TEXT UNDER".

The reason I want to join the text to the curve is so that I can manipulate the curvature of text afterwards. I can't bend the text without joint it first. Also, I don't know what you mean by, "REPEL TEXT UNDER". Is that something I need to turn off?

What version are you using Iggy? REPEL TEXT UNDER has been a feature for a few versions now (at least since V9 which is the oldest one I still have loaded). Once you invoke it, you can change the curvature of the text, by changing the shape of the repelling object.

Have a look at the example XAR that Acorn posted, and adjust the curves with the shape editor.