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Putting text on a path - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Putting text on a path
- [Narrator] I get asked this question all the time. "How do I get text on a path instead of inside it?" For example, inside this magazine document from the exercise files, I'm going to press Option or Alt Page Up a couple of times to jump to an earlier spread. And see with this path here, I'm going to select it, and zoom into 200% by pressing Command 2 or Ctrl 2 on Windows. Now, I'm going to be talking about how to draw paths like this in a later chapter, but for now, let's just put some text along this curve. At first, you'd think you'd want to use the normal Type tool to put text on a path, but I'll tell you now, it won't work. The regular Type tool can only put text into a frame, not on the outside of it. Instead, you have to use the Type On a Path tool, but where the heck is that? Well, it's hiding underneath the Type tool. To get it, you have to click and hold the Type tool, just for a moment, then you get this…
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