Curving Text

I am searching for process to curve text or align it with a curved circle or arc. Is this possible & how

Thanks

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select a text, select a curve, select menu text > associate to a curve (or whatever it is in english, since I’m backtranslating from my french version here -that’s the LAST command in the text menu)

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Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked something like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to use the polygon tool without turning the sides of the polygon into curves. I’m sure I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t know what.

Julie

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On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked something like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to use the polygon tool without turning the sides of the polygon into curves. I’m sure I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t know what.

Tool > Pen

Click, move, click, move etc (Don’t drag after you clicked: that’s how you curved it.)

To close, move cursor on starting point and Option click (The pen will then have a little circle next to it.)

Regards

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Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this without bothering the list with such an elementary question? Couldn’t find it on Help.

-j

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to draw an irregular polygon with straight sides? The MacDraw tool that used to do it looked something like the polygon tool in Intaglio, but I can’t seem to use the polygon tool without turning the sides of the polygon into curves. I’m sure I’m doing something totally wrong, but I don’t know what.

Tool > Pen

Click, move, click, move etc (Don’t drag after you clicked: that’s how you curved it.)

To close, move cursor on starting point and Option click (The pen will then have a little circle next to it.)

Regards —schremmer

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On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this without bothering the list with such an elementary question? Couldn’t find it on Help.

It’s probably there somewhere but the Help could take some help and asking for help on a list is fast and easy (I have done it a lot for LaTeX) so I would say don’t worry.

On the other hand—I just took a look:

Help > Drawing with Intaglio > Using the Path Tool

Regards

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Got it. Problem was, since I didn’t know what tool to use, I could only search by function, and that turned up nothing. So yeah, I think the list really might’ve been the only way to go. Sometimes I wish someone would sit down and write a real manual …

-j

On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks much, Alain. Is there somewhere I could’ve found this without bothering the list with such an elementary question? Couldn’t find it on Help.

It’s probably there somewhere but the Help could take some help and asking for help on a list is fast and easy (I have done it a lot for LaTeX) so I would say don’t worry.

On the other hand—I just took a look:

Help > Drawing with Intaglio > Using the Path Tool

Regards —schremmer

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hi guys,.. i am new in this forum,.. i found that it is very helpful for me because it contains very informative posts and sharing s,..thanks

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still - cannot repoduce it. (to curve text or align it with a curved circle or arc)

I can draw with the Path Tool, ok

but how to associate a line of text with the path?

this is the question…

Hope someone can jump in and throw in a rope :-)

bw, Omar K N

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Select text and path and go main menu “Text” last entry: Path binding-> Bind Text To Path.

Cheers

Frank

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Thank you Frank,

Yes that works!

/ Omar

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I’m considering buying Intaglio, and have been trying different things that I often need, in the trial version. I also can’t figure out how to align text with a curve. I can find “path binding” in the Text menu, but no matter what I do it’s greyed out.

I have a line of text and I’ve tried with an oval, an arc and a curve drawn with the pen tool. Select them both, and it’s still greyed out. What do I need to do to make the command usable?

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Can´t reproduce were you stuck as this is pretty straight forward.: 1. draw a line or curve with the bézier tool or the pen tool. 2. generate some text with the text tool. 3. select both and go menu->text->path binding - bingo. Nothing more - nothing less. Use “path bias” to adjust the text on the path etc.

Cheers

Frank

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