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    Unhappy Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    Hello:

    I keep running into an frustrating issue. Whenever I fit text to curve, it always results in an excessively large bounding box for the whole, resulting object. The object is usually just aligned to the left of the box, while the rest of the bounding box is empty. Does anyone have an explanation for this strange behaviour? Is it something I am doing wrong? Thank you!

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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    I have the same problem. I reckon Xara got its maths wrong.

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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    FWIW - I don't see this in XDP 20 or earlier versions, bounding boxes look normal
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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    Bizarre stuff. It is really frustrating because when I group Text of curve objects with other objects, the bounding box continues to be excessively large. Hope Xara fixes this.

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    Unhappy Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    Nope: Just checked on XDP 20, too. Same issue.Click image for larger version. 

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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    I'm not using the blue dash boundary boxes - it may be an issue connected to them...
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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    I think I got it - it is a combination of the blue dash boundary boxes and inserting text from within a text box - inserting text from a text line rather than a box seems ok

    but sorry no time to look at this any more, hope it helps

    ... in other words it is including the box in some way, not just the text, within the boundary...
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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    You're correct HD. Best to use a text line, not a text column nor a text area when fitting to a curve:
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    Bug Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    @Xara et al, it is actually rather worse than identified so far.
    The width of the bounding box is related to the perimeter of the curve.
    Where it is worse is if you undo the fit, the width of the Text Column/Area retains this width and if FAILS to revert (a.k.a. infinite undo) to its original width.

    Thank you for helping nail this one.

    Acorn
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    Default Re: Why does text on curve always seem to produce an excessively large bounding box?

    Spot on Acorn. The text retains the circumference length of a circle, or the length of a line/
    Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 16 November 2024 at 02:59 PM. Reason: Edit: Referencing non circular shapes
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