Circle Text

[artisansignman]

Good morning.
I have no idea how to get text onto the outside of a circle.

I want to remake this logo so I can change the font.
attached is his logo and an image of what I can do only.

Any info would help
Thanks in advance
Mike

[Acorn]

Make a large dark green circle.
Make a smaller white one with a blue 0.25 px line and clone it.
Centre one white over the green and Combine Shape > Intersect All Shapes.

Add text and rotate to align top text on one white circle.
Baseline shift the text outwards to fit.

For the remaining white circle, select the Shape Tool and Break and delete points to leave just a semi-ciecle arc.
Fit text to line and baseline shift inwards.

OR

Clone the white circle with top text and replace text with bottom text.
With the Shape Tool, click the Reverse Paths.
Centre bottom text.

Remove all construction lines and assemble.

Example: Bird Dogs.xar

Acorn

[ss-kalm]

In my experience, to get this right, you have to have the circle quadrant points at Top, bottom, right and left, and the easiest way I have found to draw the circle evenly is use BOUNDS CREATION and use CTRL to constrain the shape to circular. Using either Radius creation or diameter creation can lead to unpredictable results and make centreing text awkward.

[Acorn]

In my experience, to get this right, you have to have the circle quadrant points at Top, bottom, right and left, and the easiest way I have found to draw the circle evenly is use BOUNDS CREATION and use CTRL to constrain the shape to circular. Using either Radius creation or diameter creation can lead to unpredictable results and make centreing text awkward.

Kweith, when creating a circle I also check that the Rotation is set to 0 deg from the dropdown.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

This old XaraXone Workbook article might be helpful http://archive.xaraxone.com/webxealo...k10/page_6.htm

[Egg Bramhill]

Don't know if this helps: