William Overington Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I am trying to produce some artwork like a house sign using Affinity Designer. One of those signs that has a path of a half ellipse convex upper at the upper part of the sign with the word PRIMROSE on the path, and another half ellipse concave upper below it with the word COTTAGE on the path, so it looks like a landscape orientation ellipse path but in fact it is done with two separate half ellipses. I have managed to do the upper part fine, drawing an ellipse, convert to curves, break at the 6 o'clock point, delete two points, convert to a path, add the text. However, the lower part is the problem. I have produced the path in a similar manner to the other path yet breaking at the 12 o'clock point. That part is fine. I want the text right way up going from left to right along the concave up path. That is the problem. I seem to remember seeing a thread with this or a similar sort of problem and a clever solution, but I cannot find it and present. So either a solution or a link to that thread if it rings a bell with anyone would be helpful please. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Construct ellipse Convert to curves Select nodes at 3 and 6 o'clock Break Curve Select Artistic text tool Click on curve, select centered and type Primrose_Cottage.afphoto William Overington 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 10 Home, Intel i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1TB Whirlygig, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 Thank you for posting. I note that you used Affinity Photo. I have Affinity Photo installed but I have never used it. I could not get it to work in Affinity Designer. Before I first posted I got the PRIMROSE part at the top without using Artistic Text. In fact I had keyed the text in WordPad and did a copy and paste onto the path. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Do you mean like this... Ive adjusted the base line on both words and also increased the tracking to 200% to spread the text out a bit, also used a font called Hobo because it looks a nice font for this kind of thing. I also just used two full ellipses as I couldn't be bothered to slice and dice one lol! I also set the text to centre. Plaque.afdesign William Overington 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Late 2013 running Catalina 10.15.7 - Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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