Operation Manual

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Putting text on a path
"Ordinary" straight-line artistic text is far from ordinary—but you can extend its
creative possibilities even further by flowing it along a curved path.
The resulting object has all the properties of artistic text, plus its path is a Bézier
curve that you can edit with the Pointer Tool as easily as any other line! In
addition, text on a path is editable in some unique ways, as described on p. 207.
To apply a preset curved path to text:
1. Create an artistic text object.
2.
With the text selected, on the Text context toolbar, click the
down arrow on the Preset Text Paths flyout and choose a preset path.
The text now flows along the specified path, e.g., for "Path - Top Circle".