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Xara Xtreme - Text Tutorial -1-

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It’s easy to make text appear to flow along a curve

or around a sphere

Edit the line by moving the red handles

Make text appear to flow along a curve

or around a sphere

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make text

appear to flow along a curve or around a sphere. In fact, it’s

really quite easy.

Text flow along a curve

So these are the steps you would take to create this heading

from scratch.

1. Select the Freehand tool, draw your line.

2. Select the Text tool, click directly on the line

where you want the text to start - a small red

square should appear indicating the start point

- and type your sentence.

3. You can still edit both the line and the text - try

changing the curve using the Shape editor tool

either by nudging the line or moving the red handles

as shown on the left. You’ll see the text flows

along the new curve automatically.

Equally, if you go into the Text tool, you can still

add or delete words and the text adjusts along the

line. Also if you grab the red square at the start of

the text you can drag the whole sentence along the

curve. And you can left/right/center align text within the

start and end red squares.

Use the red square to drag the whole sentence

along the curve.