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| TracyElaine 2005-05-18, 7:30 pm |
| I need to get my text to wrap and rotate around a circle - like the lettering is around the edges of a coin. Seems like it should be easy, but I can't figure it out. Thanks for any advice!
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| David Stiller 2005-05-19, 7:21 pm |
| TracyElaine,
> I need to get my text to wrap and rotate around a circle - like
> the lettering is around the edges of a coin. Seems like it should
> be easy, but I can't figure it out. Thanks for any advice!
This is a feature that would be nice to have in Flash natively -- but
Flash doesn't have a text-to-curve tool like, say, Illustrator. The easiest
way I know is to create your text in another program, then import it. Or
.... type your text in Flash, break apart the text field into individual
letters (or again into shapes) and arrange the letters/shapes by hand.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."
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| merlinvicki 2005-05-20, 4:18 am |
| hi,
Fireworks is another tool which supports text along paths. It also has swf
export option. CorelDraw also supports this feature.
However I personally prefer Illustrator for all my shape designs.
Creating complex shapes in flash always seems to take more time. So its always
better to have one or the other vector designing tools nearby.
:)
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| Tony Heagren 2005-05-20, 11:32 pm |
| On 2005-05-20 07:04:10 +0100, "merlinvicki" <mail@merlinvicki.com> said:
> hi,
> Fireworks is another tool which supports text along paths. It also
> has swf export option. CorelDraw also supports this feature.
> However I personally prefer Illustrator for all my shape designs.
> Creating complex shapes in flash always seems to take more time. So its
> always better to have one or the other vector designing tools nearby.
> :)
If you don't have any other apps to do it with you can do it like this:
Type your text in a normal way (Static text)
Count the letters (AND SPACES). Divide 360 by your number.
Write this number down...
Break the text apart - make each letter a symbol - registration bottom centre.
Distribute to layers.
Make a layer for each space.
(Make Coffee)
One by one, select a letter - now scale and rotate (scale = 100 rotate
= 360 divided
by the number of letters and spaces). I told you to write it down didin't I ?
For the first letter of each new word rotate twice (to make up for the space).
Eventually you will have all your letters crammed together at the
centre of a circle.
Now edit each symbol (from the library - not in place) and move it up
and away from
it's registration point. Do them all and they will be evenely spaced
around a circle.
Now make the tweens and get good and dizzy.
Takes a while but cheaper than new software.
Best wishes
Tony
PS - a good way to get your head around this is to make one simple
symbol first -
like a plain bar running North South on the stage. (make sure it's
registration is bottom middle.
Let's say we want ten bars arouns a circle. Copy and 'paste
in place' your bar ten times, distribute to layers, rotate each
instance 36 degrees.
Now double click the bar at the top of your circle. Select the pixels,
hld down shift and
hit the up arrow a few times. You will see all the bars move away from
the centre.
Now spin that thing and you have an OSX log in or an old style
Macromedia preloader.
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| Hasangd 2005-05-21, 7:20 am |
| hi. Tony.... dear.
i made as u said.but how can we guess the size of the circular area for what our word is fit.
really that was very cool solution...
i m a new user. by the way
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| billwatson 2005-05-21, 7:19 pm |
| www.sephiroth.it
search for circular text....its all there
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| Tony Heagren 2005-05-23, 7:31 am |
| On 2005-05-20 07:04:10 +0100, "merlinvicki" <mail@merlinvicki.com> said:
> hi,
> Fireworks is another tool which supports text along paths. It also
> has swf export option. CorelDraw also supports this feature.
> However I personally prefer Illustrator for all my shape designs.
> Creating complex shapes in flash always seems to take more time. So its
> always better to have one or the other vector designing tools nearby.
> :)
If you don't have any other apps to do it with you can do it like this:
Type your text in a normal way (Static text)
Count the letters (AND SPACES). Divide 360 by your number.
Write this number down...
Break the text apart - make each letter a symbol - registration bottom centre.
Distribute to layers.
Make a layer for each space.
(Make Coffee)
One by one, select a letter - now scale and rotate (scale = 100 rotate
= 360 divided
by the number of letters and spaces). I told you to write it down didin't I ?
For the first letter of each new word rotate twice (to make up for the space).
Eventually you will have all your letters crammed together at the
centre of a circle.
Now edit each symbol (from the library - not in place) and move it up
and away from
it's registration point. Do them all and they will be evenely spaced
around a circle.
Now make the tweens and get good and dizzy.
Takes a while but cheaper than new software.
Best wishes
Tony
PS - a good way to get your head around this is to make one simple
symbol first -
like a plain bar running North South on the stage. (make sure it's
registration is bottom middle.
Let's say we want ten bars arouns a circle. Copy and 'paste
in place' your bar ten times, distribute to layers, rotate each
instance 36 degrees.
Now double click the bar at the top of your circle. Select the pixels,
hld down shift and
hit the up arrow a few times. You will see all the bars move away from
the centre.
Now spin that thing and you have an OSX log in or an old style
Macromedia preloader.
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