From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
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Creating text inside any path outline
From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
Creating text inside any path outline
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how to set type inside of a path outline. Now, just for the sake of this design here, we'll be setting type inside of a circle, but this could be any old path outline that you've drawn with a shape tool, the pen tool, or what have you. And so I'm going to start things off by clicking on this front shape in order to select it. And, I'm going to create another copy of it by pressing Control + C, or command + C on the Mac and then I'll go up to the Edit menu and choose the Paste in Place command, which once again has a keyboard shortcut of all modifier keys along with V. Alright now this circle has text associated with it. That's not what I want, I want that text to go away. And to make that happen, you go up to the Type menu, choose Type on a Path, and choose Delete Type from Path, and that turns that path outline back into a standard circle, and we can see that's the case by going up to this Fill option and changing it to, let's say…
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Custom symbols and page ornaments4m 16s
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Drawing a custom symbol in InDesign10m 3s
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Drawing in Illustrator and pasting into InDesign13m 35s
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Creating inline graphics8m 34s
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Converting shapes and anchor points7m 46s
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Creating type along a path outline8m 47s
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Creating text around a circle7m 21s
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Creating text inside any path outline4m 31s
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Wrapping text around an offset path8m 52s
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Customizing text converted to outlines10m 4s
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