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In the beginner tutorial of this guide, we have seen how to add text
on your CorelDRAW project with the Text tool. But there are also tools
and effects you can use to fully personalize your text as you like.
For example, you can type text along 2D paths drawn, open or closed.
Select the 2D vector curve with the Pick tool, and then go to Text, and
then to Fit Text to Path. At this point, click on the path to fix the
starting point for the text. Then, as you type in, the text will spread
along the path completely. If the curve is open, you will cover its
length until you reach its final endpoint. If the curve is closed, like
a circle or a polygon, you will cover both sides until the text will get
overlapped.
Next, the way to edit and manage this text is exactly the same as seen
for the basic text, by using the Property Bar above to edit the text
font, size and style.
This effect links the new text to the curved shape. If you move the text
with the Pick tool, you can adjust its starting point, and the scaling
of the shape on which the text lays.
Moreover, if you use the Shape tool on the text, you can regulate the
position and the correct distribution of the text itself, by clicking
and dragging on each point at the base of each letter.
In addition, this text will always be linked to the path shape. If you edit the
shape of the curve, the text will be adapted to it.
To remove this text effect, simply select it with the Pick tool and use
the Delete key.
In CorelDRAW, you also have the possibility to completely personalize
the shape of the letters of a text, starting from a standard font.
With a ready piece of text, select it with the Pick tool, and then go to
Object, Convert to Curves. This will convert the text into a filled
vector curve. In fact, if you enable the Shape or the Pen tool, you
can edit the shape of each single letter very precisely, as you can do
with a 2D curve.
Let's see how to create and manage 3D text in CorelDRAW X8! To make
3D text, you have to start from a 2D piece of text and use the Extrude
tool on it. Since this tool works on vectors and curves only, you have
to convert the 2D text first. So select the 2D text, and go to Object,
and then to Convert to Curves. Then, you can use the Extrude tool on it,
simply clicking and dragging. You can edit the extrusion direction
by moving the bold cross, and the extrusion depth by moving the small
white rectangle along the blue arrow.
By default, the extrusion will have the same color of the basic object
filling, that you can check on the right, through the Object Properties
panel. Add some outline color if you want to highlight the contours of
the 3D text.
The extrusion always follows the shape of the text it is applied to. So
if you edit the text through the Shape or the Pen tool, also the
extrusion effect will be adapted to it.
With the Extrude tool enabled, you can use the Property Bar on top
to edit the settings of the effect, such as extrusion type, length,
3D rotation, color, bevel level, and light direction.
If you want to come back to the original 2D text, select it, enable the
Extrude tool, and then click on Clear extrusion on the Property bar.
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