Re: Apply Text To Curved Path
Re: Apply Text To Curved Path
- Subject: Re: Apply Text To Curved Path
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:35:34 +0000
Wow. What can I say? That is so neat. Complete with cheat sheet too!
If I have to apply the text to a curve like this, I'll be using Smile.
Emmanuel, I have to say that you guys don't cease to amaze me with
Smile.
Thanks
Simon
On 7 Mar 2006, at 11:06, Emmanuel wrote:
At 10:55 AM +0000 3/7/06, Simon Forster wrote:
What's the best method for applying text to a curved path? If it's
at all possible, I'd like to use something like Image Events
rather than Illustrator for speed and volume reasons.
Smile's graphic library may be a solution.
Here is the entry point:
<http://www.satimage-software.com/en/graphics.html>
and here is an example where text follows a circle:
<http://www.satimage-software.com/en/graphics_sample_round_text.html>
To figure out the tilt angle, you do have to compute the derivative
of the curve in a way or another. If you're not familiar with that
kind of calculus, take a point of the curve (say, {x2, y2}) close
to the point where you are currently writing (say, {x1, y1}),
compute atan2(y2-y1, x2-x1) (requires Smile's computational stuff):
that's the tilt angle.
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