Text On a Path

Begin by creating a new document, say 400x400 . You can chose any background you want. For the purpose of this tutorial i will be using a white background with black text.

Now by using the text tool type the text you want to attach to the path.

Step two

Next draw out a path using either the pen tool, pencil tool, rectangle, or circular tool.

Step three

Now select both the text and the path (hold down SHIFT and click both a shape and a text).

With the text and shape selected go to the main menu, TEXT and and chose ATTACH TO PATH.

And now it should look like the picture below :

Step four

In this next section you will be show they ways you can change the color, size, position and more of the text.
You can still edit your text once it's attached to the path, all you need to do is just double click the text and go into the text editor.

You can also adjust the position of the text on the path by changing the alignment of the text. Right, left, center, justify.

In the next tutorial i will show you how you can use this tehnique in Flash, creating animated text, spinning around shapes.

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