Re: Text Manipulation Question

by "K Sellars" <kdsell(at)surfsouth.com>

 Date:  Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:08:12 -0400
 To:  "Michael Gerholdt" <gerholdt(at)ait.fredonia.edu>,
"Guy Hoyle" <ghoyle1(at)airmail.net>,
<HWG-GRAPHICS(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
I've been also trying to find out how to bend text.  The suggestion about
using MS-Word really did the trick.  Thanks, Guy and everyone. I've just
joined and find that all this is really helpful.

Keith Sellars
WebGraffix
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gerholdt <gerholdt(at)ait.fredonia.edu>
To: Guy Hoyle <ghoyle1(at)airmail.net>; HWG-GRAPHICS(at)hwg.org
<HWG-GRAPHICS(at)hwg.org>
Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 12:42 AM
Subject: RE: Text Manipulation Question


>
>Does anybody know of a quick and easy way to take a line of text and
>bend it into a circle? Maybe some shareware tool or something? I also
>have PSP, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photopaint, and access to several other
>programs that I'm just beginning to learn.
>
>
>- PSP at 16 millions of colors, IMAGE | DISTORTIONS | has a command that
>will make an image circular. It makes the image into the entire circle,
>though, rather than 'bending' it into the perimeter of the circle. If you
>place the text properly you can get this effect, however.
>
>- Have a look at Text Art in  Word Perfect and also in Word, if you have
one
>of them. You can bend the font of your choice in many ways, then copy and
>paste into PSP and manipulate from there with good results after playing
>with it a while.
>
>-HTH
>
>-Michael
>

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