Text on curve, but keep curve visible

[Rigoberto]

Hej,

How to put several texts on same curved line?

I am drawing a map. Map has one long river and I want to label that river with a river name in several places along the river line. It is important that text follow path of river line.

I am struggling to do above task. I tried “Text on path” with Artistic Text Tool, but river line is gone when “Text on path” it applied.

I tried to “trace” river line (vector curve) with Pan Tool to create new curve to use new curve for “Text on path”. I was not able to “trace” properly. 

Please, advice how would you solve above task.

Thx for help

Robert 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

When you create Text on a Path in Designer or Photo, the path becomes invisible. This is intentional, because once you have text on the path you would have no way of adjusting the path (stroke, color, visibility).

In Publisher, the path remains visible. But also, in Publisher, you have the Text Frame studio panel where you can make it invisible if you want, or make other adjustments.

So, your choices are:

1. Use Publisher instead of Designer; or
2. In Designer, duplicate the curve/path before adding the path text. Add the path text to either the original or the copy. Then you will have text, and a visible path. Optionally group the two objects to keep them together if you move one of them.

[Rigoberto]

Hej Walt,

Thx for tip! I will stick with Designer and use duplicate line to keep line visible and text on another line.

Robert