text that radiates from a circle

[Stryker Falconn]

Hello all, I am trying to create text that radiates from a circle (as opposed to following around a circle path). I can't seem to find a way to accomplish this. Can anyone help direct me? Thank you.

 

PS. to be clear, I'm looking for something like a sunburst pattern in which the sunburst lines are lines of text and used in a logo here: https://beatkitchen.io 

 

Thanks, Nathan

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Stryker Falconn said:

PS. to be clear, I'm looking for something like a sunburst pattern in which the sunburst lines are lines of text and used in a logo here: https://beatkitchen.io 

 

I don't see a logo like that there. Can you give the URL of the image itself, or city the image and upload it here.

[Stryker Falconn]

sorry, it's not there right now. here is a rough approximation of what I am trying to do

[walt.farrell]

Thanks.

How about:

1. Draw lines at the angle you want, then
2. click them with the Artistic Text Tool to convert them to text on a path, and
3. type what you want.

[Stryker Falconn]

Yes, that would work. I was hoping to be able to add line breaks and have them populate/space auto-magically. Manual is probably the way to go though!

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, Stryker Falconn said:

Yes, that would work. I was hoping to be able to add line breaks and have them populate/space auto-magically. Manual is probably the way to go though!

If you are using Publisher you could use linked text frames. You could even use the power duplicate to radiate them around a circle.

[Stryker Falconn]

Interesting. I do have publisher but haven't really gotten comfortable with it yet. That's good to know.

[v_kyr]

Another thing to tryout is to reuse some shapes (double star, gear ...) in order to get good equal distributed lines. Then to apply text on path to those in the desired manner.

[Stryker Falconn]

Thanks. I actually came to the same conclusion however I wasn't able to get my text to 'stick' to the lines. I just used them as visual guides. I must not have tried hard enough. Maybe there is a sweet spot to path the lines on 'double-star' and I just missed it! 

[v_kyr]

9 hours ago, Stryker Falconn said:

... however I wasn't able to get my text to 'stick' to the lines. I just used them as visual guides.

For a shape object (like the 'double-star' etc.) it might be easier to convert it afterwards to curves, then to geometrical divide that object and then to group the single curve line objects together. So that you then can easier apply the shape text to those seperate lines then.