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Text flow around a sphere
1. Draw a circle (tip, hold down the Ctrl key to keep
it perfectly rounded) and set the fill to no color
(with the circle selected left click on ‘No
Color’ on the color line).
2. Next, type the text on a separate single
line, above the circle and apply center justification.
 
3. Select both the text and the circle using the Selector
tool. Select Arrange > Fit Text to Curve.  The text will
appear wrapped around the bottom of the circle.
4. Now, to make the text appear at the top of the circle, use
the Selector tool and flip the shape using both icons (Flip
Horizontally and Flip Vertically).
5. If you want to make the text go on the inside of the
sphere, right click on it and select Reverse Text on Curve (or
use the Shape editor 'reverse path icon’).
 
So by combining the flip icons and the reverse commands
you can get all sorts of combination of text, centered on the
top or bottom, inside or outside the circle.
 
6. As above, you can use baseline shift to move the text
above or below the line, and tracking to adjust the letter
spacing.
7. And again you can make the line invisible by selecting
'clear line color' from the color line (you can still see the line
using the view quality slider if necessary).
  Xara Xtreme - Text Tutorial -3-
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Text initially appears on the wrong side of the circle
Flip text to the top
Adjust baseline shift and tracking 
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