You can also adjust where the text is along the curve by selecting it with your Pick Tool.
Tick Snapping: Specify spacing increments for snapping text to the path Mirror Text: Flip the text from left to right or bottom to top Offset: Move the text closer to the end or start of a path by specifying positive or negative values Text orientation: Specify how the text bends to follow the pathĭistance from Path: Specify the distance between text and path These give you more control over the placement of the text around the curve. Selecting both the circle and the text allows you to use the Fit Text to Path menu tools. Use the Text Tool to select just the text, and change the font, size, kern or any other editing that you would normally do to the text. Once you have your text in place, you can use all of the standard tools available for editing text, as well as manipulating the fitted text. Likewise, you can apply special effects to paragraph text by converting the text to artistic text. To apply these formatting options to artistic text, you first need to convert the artistic text to paragraph text. Additional formatting options are available for paragraph text. When you click on the mouse with this cursor showing, the text will conform to the inside of the circle. You can edit text directly in the drawing window or in a dialog box. Clicking the mouse with this cursor showing will place typed text onto the page of the circle.Ĭursor 3 appears when the cursor is moved just to the inside of the circle and is the Paragraph Text Tool. On the Drawing Tools tab, in the Insert Shapes group, click Edit Text. Each shape is pictured and described below.Ĭursor 1 is the standard text cursor and will produce text anywhere on the page.Ĭursor 2 appears when the cursor is right on top of the circle. Add text to an AutoShape On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes, and then click the shape that you want. Depending on how close you place the cursor to the circle, you will see the cursor change shape. Next, select the Text Tool on the toolbar and line up the cursor with the circle. Use the Ellipse Tool (circled in green on the toolbar) and draw any size circle for our example. Well, it’s possible in a few easy steps in CorelDRAW! Follow the directions below to see how you can master this technique. Double clicking on segments creates new node. Have you ever had that engraving job that would have looked even better if you could have just curved the text around the photograph, or been able to have the text along a line you drew? After converting object to curves (Ctrl+Q), press F10 and click on node(s).