Text-On-Path Robustness
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Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
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I'm assuming that for text-on-path, it's the baseline of the font that gets placed on the path, and exactly. But is this reliable across [almost] all applications?
I will be testing this on [very] old versions of InDesign and lllustrator, but that won't say nearly enough about robustness (unless it fails of course). If anybody is inclined to help by doing a quick test on whatever they have and reporting back, that would be most kind.
I will be testing this on [very] old versions of InDesign and lllustrator, but that won't say nearly enough about robustness (unless it fails of course). If anybody is inclined to help by doing a quick test on whatever they have and reporting back, that would be most kind.
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In InDesign, the user can determine how the glyphs are aligned to the path. As I recall, baseline is the default, but it is a while since I used this feature.2
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Yes, you can move the line where you may choose but it is tricky. There is no nudge by arrow key thing but there should be.1
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You can use baseline shift.2
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In Ai, there's more options besides having it stick to the baseline. More options at type>type on a path> type on a path options> align to path>1
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