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How can I centre this text inside of this circle?


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It may be dependent on the font, or possibly other factors. Can you give us a sample file to play with?

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Non-rectangular text frames often appear not to respect the wanted position but rather stick to the object dimension and theoretical lengths of lines, which vary in particular within curved shapes.

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For non-rectangular text frames you can achieve more detailed results if you adjust manually, using baseline shift (character panel) + inset (text frame panel) , e.g.:
[ Note an oddity (or bug?) here: If you set the paragraph to center align then a Bottom inset would move the text horizontally, not vertically as expected. ]

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Its down to the tracking and kerning built into the font. You can always use text with no background and then add the background manually then you have a little more arbitrary control over the layout. Just personal preference really.

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