Up and Down the line.

[ss-kalm]

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.

H-aligned Text on a Curve.xar

Acorn

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

[Acorn]

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