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Using Type On A Path tool

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Using Type On A Path tool

- [Instructor] This is a vector drawing of one of my cats. This is Bilbo, I think a role model for all of us, He goes to sleep, wakes up in the morning, has a few biscuits, goes out for a walk, runs around a bit, comes back, has a couple more biscuits and a drink, goes to sleep, rinse and repeat several times until the following day. Ah, the cat life. Anyway, I digress. What we're going (laughs) to look at here is type on a path, okay? And we're going to do some type around a circle, select the circle that we currently have here. We're not going to be using that one, as it happens, but just select that for now and then go up to the object menu, come down to the path menu, and then choose offset path. Okay, now in this field here, we're going to give this a negative value. Now I'm scrolling, which of course makes that happen really, really quickly. I'm going to bring that down I think around about here, about 60…

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