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Creating text inside any path outline

Creating text inside any path outline

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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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