"any vector object" on a curve

**Big Frank** · 15 January 2012, 12:54 AM

I was looking at this post just now and I thought "how often could I have used a feature like that in Xara?"

I want text and everything else on a curve!!!!

Pretty please

**Christine Farrelly** · 15 January 2012, 04:15 AM

You can already put text or a blend on a curve and for a single object there is the mould tool.

Christine

**Big Frank** · 15 January 2012, 11:58 AM

Yes, but I find the mould tool so damn limiting. I mean, let's say you draw a simple landscape:

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All you can do is mould that landscape to a curve...

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Or mould it to a wave...

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Or mould it to an angled line...

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Err, is there a form I can fill in to retract stupid "Dear Xara" submissions?

**handrawn** · 15 January 2012, 01:41 PM

Frank what you meant to ask for [I am sure] is an option that objects be centred on the curve vector and not just offset [above/below the line] - and that objects can have their aspect fixed; eg all letters along the curve can be set to remain perpendicular....

**Big Frank** · 15 January 2012, 01:50 PM

Yes, that's it Steve! That's what I meant!

**handrawn** · 15 January 2012, 02:04 PM

**Drwyd** · 15 January 2012, 03:19 PM

Quite often posts on TG send me off on a journey of serendipity. This is where this one led me

**Big Frank** · 15 January 2012, 03:33 PM

Smooth

**itsfransie** · 16 January 2012, 09:44 AM

Another way is to turn the objects (make sure every house, tree etc is a group) into a brush.

**MarcT** · 16 January 2012, 02:23 PM

I would also like this options available in Xara.
Either as a skeletal stroke (Like expression or inkscape) or as described in your link.

I think this has been requested a couple of time in the past.

Marc