Perpindicular Text

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Not so much dedication as enjoying a new idea.

I sometimes wish that in this regard, InDesign offered some special features for dealing with some of these common needs. Rather, it treats type on a path very like any other type. This has lots of positive benefits, but fails to provide features that could be geared to particular built-in shapes, such as circles/ellipses and rectangles.

Having text run around the top of a circle and inside the bottom of a circle (which FreeHand makes a snap of the fingers) is an example of what I'm talking about. Unless I'm missing something blatantly obvious, InDesign forces you to split the circle into two halves (or has you overlay one circle with another).

Dave

[Bob_Levine]

I didn't know Freehand could that. It's the only major graphics app I've
never even seen. That's one feature I'd like to see.

Bob

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

With FreeHand, if you click on a circle/ellipse and a text frame with two lines of text and choose Attach Text to Path (I might not have the command name right -- it's years since I actually did this), it wraps the first line around the top and the second line around the bottom, each left to right. Very useful.

It also put me into a mindset that you first create your text and your path and then you operate on them, which made it hard for me to wrap my mind around the use of a different tool for text on a path.

Dave

[Drew_Gibson@adobeforums.com]

Dave,

What you did with the sun's rays is exactly what I am trying to do. I am not sure how you accomplished this? Did you use the type tool and type tool to generate the text and then use the angle within the tranform box to generate the alignment? Can you provide more detail.

Thanks.

[Bob_Levine]

What he did was create each block of text and then used in-line frames
to force ID to treat each as an individual character.

Bob

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I had to rotate the frames 90 degrees before placing them inline.

Dave

[Drew_Gibson@adobeforums.com]

I am not very familiar with InDesign and I tried to do a search on in=line frames without any luck. How would you create an in-line frame.

Thanks,

Drew

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

1. Create a text frame.
2. [in this case] Rotate it 90 degrees.
3. Cut it.
4. Click the insertion point on the path using the text on a path tool.
5. Paste.

Dave

[Drew_Gibson@adobeforums.com]

Dave that works great. How did you place a line or space between each text segment?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I typed a space and then set the paragraph to force justify -- remember, the text on the path is a paragraph.

Dave

[Drew_Gibson@adobeforums.com]

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP.

[Kenneth_Lasley@adobeforums.com]

Dave you are absolutely right about text on a path with Freehand. That is the only feature I really line in Freehand. I wish InDesign and Illustrator would incorporate this.

Ken