Text shape

[thepersonof]

Hi I'm trying to have my text bounded by a circle, so that it follows its edges. How can I do this? cheers

[Stephan Samuel]

There are articles on the Internet (I remember seeing at least one on this site) about that, with code. The case of a circle is relatively easy, mostly a task in converting polar to Cartesian geometry. Break your text into letters and determine the angle for each letter based on the tangent at that point. The hard part isn't making your text fit on a circle, but the leading between letters. If you're using a variable pitch font, how good the text looks is largely about pair kerning between letters. It's about combinations like "oo" and "oi" not having the same spacing. TrueType contains some hinting, so maybe there's some way to tap into that and pull out instructions from there.

[leppie]

GraphicsPath will do that for you :)**

How xacc.ide transforms text to colored words on the screen
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[thepersonof]

Thank you!! Also how could I have a text "fill" of a circle, instead of the rectangle? Can this be done with graphics path? cheers