designing PM to permit curving of text wrap

[papajoe]

Is it possible to create a text wrap box, circle or line with intermediate points (tags) that will permit curving of such lines. We recently purchased a Viking Designer I sewing machine that is computerize, and one of the autodigitizing programs we also purchased at the time has this feature...which permits curving of lines by going from one point to another holding down the right mouse button. At present, the only way I can effect such curved text wrap in my bulletin is by stacking several text wrapped boxes to form the desired outline around photos, etc.

Joe Coppinger/Perris CA

 

[Eggles]

Do you mean like this:

http://www.boomspeed.com/eggles/curved_margin_text.pdf

 

[BionicJohn]

Tee-hee! Nice one Lyn!

Iechyd da! John
23:25 28/09/2003 BST

 

[papajoe]

Am I missing something? I received an email stating that someone had replied to my question about curving lines, boxes and circles to facilitate working around irregular shaped graphics with text wrap.

Please advise...

Joe Coppinger/Perris CA

 

[papajoe]

Eggles: Your example was good, but it came up in Photoshop...How can this be produced in PageMaker 7.01?

Please advise...

Joe Coppinger/Perris CA

 

[papajoe]

BigJohnD

So...John, did you have any info on how to effect curved lines with text wrapping feature. That is, to be able to use one feature to curve text around an irregular shaped graphic (photo)?

Joe Coppinger/Perris CA

 

[Eggles]

PJ - I created that example in Pagemaker but converted it to PDF so it could display on the web.

How to do it in PM:

Using the recatangle tool, draw a narrow rectangle the length of the text box. Eventually you will have this rectange with no fill and no stroke (Element>Fill and Stroke>both set to 'None') so it will be invisible, but I left the stroke visible in the example so you could see where I drew it. Once you have your rectangle, then click on it with the pointer tool, and go to Element>Text Wrap, and select the irregular-shaped wrap option. This will bring up a dotted border around your rectangle. With the pointer tool, add evenly spaced points along the edge the text will abut against. (of course you repeat this process - i.e. another rectangle - either side of the text box if you want both edges curved).

Still with the pointer tool active, click on the points and drag them outwards AWAY from the rectangle. If any of the points go inside the rectangle, they won't work. I alternated how far out I dragged the points from a short way out, to much further out. When you drop the text frame in next to these, it will curve against the points.

You may have to fiddle to get the number of points appropriate for the text size and leading to get a smooth curve.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, papajoe,

It's as Lyn says. I did this in a few seconds! Thanks Lyn!

http://www.johndavies.mersinet.co.uk/pmwin/curvedmargin.pdf

Iechyd da! John
18:31 29/09/20033 BST

 

[Eggles]

John - I got a 'Viewer cannot decrypt this document' message when I clicked on your link. Is it set for viewing only in Reader 6? (which I don't use).

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Lyn,

> Is it set for viewing only in Reader 6?

Sorry, Yes. Ver3 or later should open it now.

Iechyd da! John
08:58 30/09/2003 BST

 

[papajoe]

Thanx Lyn and John...I'll give this a try and get back if there's a problem.

Joe Coppinger/Perris CA

 

[papajoe]

BigJohn...How does one goaboutremoving the security settings from the pdf you sent re: curving text wrap?
PapaJoe32@aol.com

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, papajoe,

Yes, it was password protected - most of my PDFs are by default. You be able to copy the text and so on now.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.