Adobe illustrator cs4- P11

Adobe illustrator cs4- P11: Good designers have many tools at their disposal. Especially in an environmentwhere most designers have other powerful graphics applications, itcan be diffi cult to choose which one to use for a particular task. For example,a designer can apply soft drop shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, andInDesign—is one application any better than the others for this?
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Adobe illustrator cs4- P11274 CHAPTER 8: WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY choosing Type > Type on a Path > Type on a Path Options. The following settings are available in the Type on a Path Options dialog box: • Effect. The Effect setting controls the orientation of the text relative to the path. Prior to Illustrator CS, all Type on a Path objects used the Rainbow setting, which rotated each character to be tangent to the path. Illustrator now allows you to also choose from Skew, 3D Ribbon, Stair Step, and Gravity (Figure 8.24).Figure 8.24 Listed here arethe five effect settings you Rainbowcan use with path type. Skew 3D Ribbon Stair Step Gravity • Align to Path. The Align to Path setting determines which part of the text actually lines up with and touches the path. You can choose from Baseline (the default), Ascender, Descender, and Center (Figure 8.25).Figure 8.25 Listed here arethe four align settings you Baselinecan use with path type. Ascender Descender Center WRAPPING TEXT AROUND OBJECTS 275• Spacing. You can use the Spacing setting to help get consistent spacing between characters on curved paths (the setting doesn’t do much on straight paths). Where paths make sharp curves, the spacing between characters could appear at odd angles or with inconsistent spacing. Specifying a higher spacing value brings characters closer to each other and corrects the spacing issues.• Flip. The Flip setting allows you to control the side of the path on which the text appears.If you want to apply an appearance to the path itself on a Path Type object,click just the path with the Direct Selection tool (it might be easier to dothis while you are in the Outline view mode). You can then apply attributesto the path as you would normally. To offset text from the path itself, usethe Baseline Shift setting; however, if you’re working with wavy or curvedpaths, using one of the Align to Path settings offers better results because ittakes advantage of the Spacing setting.WR APPING TEXT A ROUND OBJECTSGraphic layouts sometimes call for text wrapping around the perimeter of TIP Older versions ofother objects. Because the wrap is an attribute of the object, not the text, Illustrator requiredyou’ll find the Text Wrap option listed in the Object menu. You can specify that you apply a text wrap by selecting both the text andtext wraps for individual objects or for groups. Similar to what you learned the object. Doing this inabout groups in Chapter 5, “Organizing Your Drawing,” applying a text Illustrator now creates a wrapwrap to an entire group allows you to specify one text wrap setting for the around both the text and theentire group. Choosing several objects and then applying a text wrap simply object, so make sure youapplies an individual text wrap to each selected object. Once you’ve made a have just the object selected.selection, choose Object > Text Wrap > Make.Unlike layout applications such as InDesign, the text wrap functionalityin Illustrator doesn’t allow you to edit the text wrap in the form of a path.You can specify only the offset value, which you can access by selectingthe object with the wrap and choosing Object > Text Wrap > Text WrapOptions.A text wrap’s boundary is defined by the object’s appearance, not its vectorpath. If you have live effects applied to an object, a text wrap that is appliedto that object will follow the appearance.276 CHAPTER 8: ...