How to scale font size in spiral

[Gare]

I think your answer is going to wind up in the domain of bitmaps graphics...a filter probably...rather than vector art, drcarl. If anyone can figure out an algorithm to scale text down exponentially, they take the cake, you know? This question came up on Creative Cow about 5 years ago, and the best answer was (In Illustrator, and the same with Xara), "Fit the text to path, and then when the path starts getting too small, reduce the size of the text."

It's a manual approach. Requires the patience of a saint.

My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

It's easy enough to taper the text but to get to a spiral curve is not.

[Gare]

@Mike—you are amazing, Sir.

@Larry—Dmitri Maultin created a spiral generator to use with Xara years ago and here's the link to Gary Priester's Shareware archives click to download the spiral generator from the original Xara Xone.

-Og

[mwenz]

Why thank you sir Gary.

And I did use the spiral generator. Great little utility. Can't drag and drop into Illy though. Can't place the file either. It does open though. So I opened it, copied and pasted into my working document.

Mike

[wizard509]

Gary I tried that, failing to get the envelope to follow the curve, I tried making a brush but that didn't work for me either.

[wizard509]

I'd love to know how to do it using Xara.

[mwenz]

Are you trying in illustrator, Larry? Or just in an Xara product?