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Putting text on a path - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training
Putting text on a path
- [Instructor] Here's a question I get asked all the time. "How do I get text on a path instead of inside it? For example, here inside this magazine document from the exercise files, I'll press option or alt page up a couple of times to jump to an earlier spread. And see this path here, this red one? I'll select that and zoom into 100% by pressing command + 1 or control + 1 on Windows. Now, I'm going to be talking about how to draw paths like this in a later chapter, but for right now, how do we put text along that curve? At first, you would think that you'd want to use the normal type tool to put text on a path, but I'll tell you now, it won't work. The regular type tool can only put text into a frame, not along the outside. Instead, we have to use the type on a path tool, but where the heck is that? Well, here's the secret. It's hiding underneath the type tool. To get it, you have to click and hold…
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