About Graphics Software
Previous Tip

Previous Tip

Back to Index

Back to Index

Next Tip

Next Tip

Formatting is lost when text is aligned to a curve
Pencil
When you align text to curve you lose the special fills and outline properties (shadow properties are not lost). Here is a workaround that I have come up with:

Create your text and apply the formatting you want, then make a duplicate of it.  With one copy of the text, align it to curve.  Then with the other copy, right click it and convert to curves, then ungroup it.  Now you can manipulate each letter. 

I use the text that I aligned to the curve as a guide and I line up my converted to curves, ungrouped letters on top of them, using rotate to get the angles just right. You will want to make sure “snap to grid” is turned off in the options. Once you get it all arranged you can group it and delete the curved text without the formatting since you only needed it as a guide.

smileySubmitted by SC.

Please note: All files and information provided on this site are offered freely for your own personal use.  However, the copyrights to these files are still owned by their respective authors, therefore we ask that the files and information on these pages NOT be copied, reposted or distributed in any way without written permission from the author.

Disclaimer: Neither this site nor the author of this site is in any way affiliated with, compensated by, or endorsed by Micrografx. For technical support, please contact Sierra. Thank you for visiting and please stop back often.

Last Updated: 08/04/00