How to make a curved text label
Hi, hope you can help. I would like to know how to create a curved text label which follows the same degree of arc (of a circle) where the text label will be placed. I am trying to illustrate a looping procedure and need a few labels within the circle, each to be curved as per the degree of arc.
I thought it would be straightforward, but an hour here and i'm nowhere nearer to figuring out how to achieve this. Any clues would be most welcome. Cheers, Rob. |
If you have MS Powerpoint, then from the Home tab you can choose [B]Font > Text Effects > Transform[/B]
(And then copy & paste the results to OmniGraffle, which lacks this feature). (Otherwise, you will need to use some more fully-featured vector graphics package like Illustrator). |
Thanks Rob, i don't have either of the software you advise. Surprised omnigraffle can't to do this...it seems to have plenty of features as it is.
Cheers, Rob. |
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I find that I can also successfully copy transformed text from the free (open source) [URL="http://inkscape.org/"]Inkscape[/URL] into OmniGraffle.
Note that to get a vector (rather than bitmap) copy into OG, you need to Save As PDF (using the 'convert texts to paths' and 'export area is drawing' options), and then use OG's [B]File > Place image[/B] to bring the PDF file in. Inkscape installed without problem (takes a few minutes on first launch) on my OS X 10.6 system. There is a different build for OS X 10.7, which I haven't tested. [url]http://en.dev.inkscape.org/download/[/url] |
From the manual:
[url]http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Path.html[/url] |
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