[FAR Clothing Co]

Hello,

My question is how do I apply an arc to text with out stretching the letters around?? I know how to do the arc but I'm looking for a little different look. I'm trying to get each letter to turn around an arc without it tweaking the letter.. If that made sense?

this is what i would like to accomplish, but I did this by hand

is there a tool that will do this for me in AI??

thanks, Paul

 

[boxcar22]

If you just want to set type along a path (or circle in your case) just make a circle and select the "type along a path" tool. It should be nested in with the regular type tool. Click on the path you want to type on and you should be good to go.

 

[FAR Clothing Co]

thanks,

how about if I have a text that I created with an outline can I still "type along path" still or is there another way??

 

[boxcar22]

Do you mean that your text has been "converted to outlines", or that you still have editable text w/ a stroke around it?

 

[FAR Clothing Co]

converted to outlines and added a stroke on outside of text

 

[A Perfect Pixel]

there's an arc effect right in illustrator, without using a path

Effects [menu] > Warp > Arch (+ others)

 

[aplusbowling]

Select your object --> Effect --> Warp

 

[FAR Clothing Co]

thanks.... I will try in a little

 

[queerrep]

thanks,

how about if I have a text that I created with an outline can I still "type along path" still or is there another way??

If you outline the text it changes it to artwork and is no longer considered type ... therefore you can't use the type along a path method.

Put the type on a path and give it an outline before converting to outlines and you'll be fine.