Typing text onto a curve

You can create a text object
by typing directly onto a line or shape. This is a useful alternative to typing in the text and then fitting it to the line.

To type text onto a curve

1. Select a line
or shape.

2. Choose the Text Tool.

3. Click on the line or shape. CTRL-click to start the text at the beginning of the line.

4. Type the text. When the text cursor reaches the end of the line, it wraps onto a new line underneath. If you are typing the text onto a shape, it will wrap around the line again.

When you click, two handles appear on the line or shape that show the width of the text. The text wraps within this width, just like column text.

Tips

Text will always follow the direction in which the curve was drawn. You can reverse the line direction if required. Alternatively use the flip buttons in the Selector Tool to flip the line.

If you do not want text wrapping (you want the text continuing off the end of the line), Shift-click on the line. This inserts a kern character at the beginning of the line.

Text around a curve can be edited and selected as normal. The text cursor follows the path of the curve.

You cannot type onto a QuickShape
(including ellipses and rectangles). Either:

(a) type in the text then use fit text to curve

or (b) convert the QuickShape to an editable shape before clicking on it.

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