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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

You're reading from   Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals Develop skills in vector graphic illustration and build a strong design portfolio with Illustrator 2022

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569256
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
2. Chapter 1: Building a Foundation beyond the Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Prepping for Illustrator 4. Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
5. Chapter 3: Developing and Organizing Objects 6. Chapter 4: Drawing with the Pencil, Paintbrush, Pen, and Shape Tools 7. Chapter 5: Editing and Transforming Objects 8. Chapter 6: Advanced Attribute Design 9. Chapter 7: Powerful Typography Options in Adobe Illustrator 10. Part 3 – Real-World Applications
11. Chapter 8: Preparing Artwork for Presentation 12. Chapter 9: Utilizing Multiple Artboards 13. Chapter 10: Advanced Layer Development and Organization 14. Chapter 11: Extending Illustrator Through Third-Party Tools and the iPad 15. Chapter 12: Illustrator Mastery – Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing with text on a path

Text can be directly written upon any path or can be pasted from any traditional text frame. Type on a Path Tool is in the Type Tool family of tools in the toolbar. Click and hold the icon of any tool within this family to access the additional tools, including Type on a Path Tool. Choosing this tool will now adjust the cursor to a variation of the insertion cursor you usually see when choosing the regular Type Tool (see Figure 7.13):

Figure 7.13 – The Type on a Path cursor

In addition to Type on a Path Tool, there is also Vertical Type on a Path Tool. It works very similarly to Type on a Path Tool.

To apply text to a path, you can just move the cursor over the selected path and then click on it. It will then be filled with highlighted placeholder text. At this stage, you can change the highlighted placeholder text by typing the intended text. The text can then be modified and adjusted along the path (Figure 7.14):

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