Text on Paths with Vertical Strokes, Please!

[j_random_guy]

This has been a feature I've used in Illustrator and CorelDraw since the early 90's. Corel has had it for nearly 30 years. 

It's a must-have for banner or signage. 

I would literally pay Adobe prices for this feature. 

[Kuttyjoe]

What does this mean exactly? Text on paths.  With vertical strokes.  As a long time user of both of those programs, I feel like it must be something I've used all the time, but I don't recognize it from the description.  I wonder if you are describing text on a path with the "arched" effect vs the "arc" effect.  The arch is vertical, while the arc causes the vertical part of the letters to follows the angle of the path.

[Old Bruce]

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Currently I know of no simple straightforward way to do vertical text.

[dominik]

50 minutes ago, Kuttyjoe said:

What does this mean exactly?

Hi @j_random_guy and @Kuttyjoe

I'm not the OP but I've seen this post earlier this day. I understood the question that he or she is looking for something like this:

 

This can be accomplished to some extent in APh with the Mesh Warp Tool. But it is not very exact because it is not possible to constrain the moves to a vertical direction.

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[j.king]

I need this option badly! Used it all the time in AI. Is there still no way to accomplish this in AD??

[John Rostron]

You cannot do this in Designer, but in Photo you can do it with Filter > Distort > Shear.

John