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• • December 20, 2022 at 1:34 am #14378959
    David Jeffery

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    I’m having difficulty putting into words what I am trying to do which makes Googling unproductive!

    I want to mould a single word (psychedelia, in a “trippy” font like synthemesc) into an oval shape. I have found out how to flow text into a shape but that isn’t the effect I’m going for – that is good for instance for putting a whole paragraph into an oval.

    I have tried “create outlines” but not sure where I should go from there. Transform doesn’t seem to be the way to go. I wonder if clipping paths may be the way forward but I can get text to flow along a path but not to traansform a single word into an oval.

    I would describe myself as a user of InDesign at the beginner/intermediate level at best. I am thoroughly enjoying learning InDesign. It is immensely powerful – but I feel that at the moment my use of it is like using a cobine harvester to mow my front lawn!
    If I can find examples of the kind of thing I am trying to achieve I will post back.

    Any pointers gratefully received, even just single words describing the menu item I need to select.

    Thanks for listening.

  • December 20, 2022 at 3:40 am #14378961
    Godfried Vonk

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    What you want is not something InDesign is good at, it seems more like a job I would do in Illustrator. It looks like you want to create some kind of logo design. What you could do is put all the letters individually in a text box, outline them and create a composition with that.

    • December 20, 2022 at 4:42 am #14378962
      David Jeffery

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      Thank you.

      I am literally an amateur so this is not for a specific job, it is more about learning how to use the creative software. But yes, a logo design is the kind of thing I’m aiming for. I will see what I can do with Illustrator.

    • December 20, 2022 at 5:15 am #14378963
      David Jeffery

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      Thank you for pointing me towards Illustrator. This is what I needed – https://youtu.be/xE_W3g-rxls

  • December 30, 2022 at 2:40 pm #14378960
    Nick B

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    Hi David, I think you might be wanting to warp the text inside a shape? If so, here are a couple of links to Adobe forums discussion with pointers:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/warp-text-effect-in-indesign/td-p/10131063
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/can-i-quot-warp-quot-text-in-cc-indesign-not-wrap-quot-warp-quot/m-p/8898969

    The gist is you would need to do it in Illustrator or Photoshop and place in ID.

    Nick

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