Text-On-Path Robustness

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
edited July 2016 in Type Design Technique & Theory
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.
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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,399
    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.
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    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.
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,749
    You can use baseline shift.
  • AbiRasheed
    AbiRasheed Posts: 245
    edited July 2016
    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>

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