Draw text on path
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Is there an easy way to draw a text on a path? Specifically if I have a curve and I want this text to go along that curve, how can I do that? Thanks.
Werdna wrote: Is there an easy way to draw a text on a path? No. Lots of calculations and direct font manipulation (if you want to scew fonts) is required. Otherwise, you must trace along the path perpendicular to the normal and draw your fonts with the correct width (of each character, which requires quite a bit of calculations) and space between characters. It's not as easy as it sounds (if you think this sounds easy). Photoshop CS just added text path support. It hadn't had it previously and there were only a few plugins available that provided such functionality. Just as an example.
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Werdna wrote: Is there an easy way to draw a text on a path? No. Lots of calculations and direct font manipulation (if you want to scew fonts) is required. Otherwise, you must trace along the path perpendicular to the normal and draw your fonts with the correct width (of each character, which requires quite a bit of calculations) and space between characters. It's not as easy as it sounds (if you think this sounds easy). Photoshop CS just added text path support. It hadn't had it previously and there were only a few plugins available that provided such functionality. Just as an example.
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