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Mar 13th 2003#95202 Report
Member since: Aug 9th 2001
Posts: 2333
I need a little help in Illustrator 9. Picture a cirlce. Now picture the text "HELLO" going around the top of the circle using the text to path tool, going from left to right ie clockwise. Now, picture the word "GOOD" at the bottom left of the cirlce which is reading from left to right. ie anti-clockwise. How can i get the GOOD to type anti-clockwise? Not neccessarily on the same circle, i can duplicate that if neccessary. PS the words i've used are not the actual words ;)
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Mar 13th 2003#95204 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
Posts: 6632
I can tell you how to do that in Corel Draw, but not Illustrator. :(
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Mar 13th 2003#95205 Report
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:( COREL!!!! Such a woman's program ;) Thanks anyway.
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Mar 13th 2003#95206 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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it's not too bad. i only do simple things with it. laying out plaques and name tags and stuff. it isn't much of a power user program though. a lot of the keyboard shortcuts suck or are non-existant, etc .
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Mar 13th 2003#95208 Report
Member since: Aug 9th 2001
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Yeah..i'm sure i CAN do this in Illustrator...i certainly hope so.. I'm doing another school logo.
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Mar 13th 2003#95209 Report
Member since: Nov 26th 2001
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If you can wait a bit I will be home in a few hours and i can run through it. I cant think of it right off the top of my head. Have you tried copying that circle and use it as another path for the text?
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Mar 13th 2003#95210 Report
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Yeah i have...the problem is that the tex i need on the bottom right is going anti-clocwise so it reads normally..
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Mar 13th 2003#95211 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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Can you make the text go backwards before you join it to the path?

In Draw there is a button to flip something to the other side of the path. Maybe Illustrator has a similar button.
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Mar 13th 2003#95212 Report
Member since: Nov 26th 2001
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I have run across this before when making text go around a CD. I just cant remember what I did....
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Mar 13th 2003#95213 Report
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not that i can see no...i don't use illustrator an awful lot.
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