Warping Text using Illustrator CS3

Strangely, the most hit page during the most recent week has been my “how-to” warp text with Adobe Illustrator 10.

Adobe, in Illustrator 11, 12 and 13 (aka CS, CS2 and CS3) have dramatically simplified the process of warping text:

Firstly, you have some text in a Text Frame:

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Whilst the frame is selected, there is a new button on the Toolbar:

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If you select “with warp”, a new dialog box appears:

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By clicking the “Preview” button, off you go!

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  4. Nice, but not quite as easy to use as AI9 was with Kai’s Power Tools where individual letters could be easily massaged against an outline of a background element. This thing is cumbersome, requires too much guesswork, and doesn’t have anywhere near enough options. And…why are the letterforms all of a sudden no longer paths? It’s nice that the finished product can still be edited, but it makes things very difficult for warping text into complex shapes when distortion is not a desired effect.

    Sigh. Maybe next time Adobe.

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