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Technical Library: Wrapping Text Around an Object
Have you ever created a text heavy plaque that you
want to dress up with a photo, but it doesn't quite
look right? How about if you could make that text easily
wrap around the image, making it a more cohesive design?
You can wrap text around an image in a few quick and
easy steps that will let you improve your image setup
and give you a great tool to use in Corel!
Right click below and choose "Save Target As" to
save the file to your desktop and try it for yourself.
Corel 8.0 or later: fish.cdr
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First, select the Smart Drawing Tool in the toolbar.
This is a new feature of Corel 12 which allows you
to draw a rough shape, then it will automatically smooth
the curves. If you do not have Corel 12, you can use
the Bezier Tool to accomplish this task, shown in Step
2.
When you have selected the tool, press down on your
left mouse button at the first point of your outline,
and draw a rough outline of the image. Hold down your
mouse button the entire time you are drawing. When
you are done, the outline will look something like
the image at the right. |
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If you have a version of Corel older than 12, you can
use the Bezier tool to draw your outline around the fish.
Select the Bezier Tool in the tool bar, shown circled
in red, and click where you want the first point in your
outline. Contine to click around the fish until you have
made a complete circle.
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Next,
select the outline around the fish you just drew
and in the toolbar at the top of the page, select
the "Wrap Paragraph Text" button, circled
in red.
When
you have selected this tool, a number of choices
for how to wrap the text are available. Since we
want
the text to wrap as close to the fish as possible,
we'll select "Straddle Text" under the "Contour" choices.
At
the bottom of the menu under "Text Wrap" you
can set how close to the outline to wrap the text.
We'll select .007 to keep the text very close to the
outline.
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Next, you can choose the Shape Tool, circled
in red, to adjust each of the individual points, or
nodes, that make up the outline.
By moving the nodes closer to or further from the
fish, you can adjust how close the text fits the shape
of the fish around the entire image.
Play with the shape of your outline to make the flow
of the text look natural around the object.
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Finally,
select the border shape around the fish and change
the outline to no color. To dress up our engraving
even more, we selected the text boxes and changed them
to an alignment of "full" so that it would
line up on both the left and the right edges of the
columns.
Try different alignments with your projects and see
what your favorite look is! |
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