Attaching Text To A Path - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

To save text attributes as a style:
Create a text object and apply the attributes you want.
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Select the text object.
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Choose New Style from the Styles panel Options menu.
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Choose the properties for the new style and name it.
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Click OK.
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Attaching text to a path

To free text from the restrictions of rectangular text blocks, you can draw a path and attach text to
it. The text flows along the shape of the path and remains editable.
A path to which you attach text temporarily loses its stroke, fill, and effect attributes. Any stroke,
fill, and effect attributes you apply subsequently are applied to the text, not the path. If you then
detach the text from the path, the path regains its stroke, fill, and effect attributes.
Note: Attaching text that contains hard or soft returns to a path can produce unexpected results.
If text attached to an open path exceeds the length of the path, the remaining text returns and
repeats the shape of the path.
Text on a path that returns and repeats the path shape
To place text on a path:
Shift-select a text block and a path.
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Choose Text > Attach to Path.
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To detach text from a selected path:
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Choose Text > Detach from Path.
Editing paths and text attached to paths
Text that you have attached to a path remains editable. In addition, you can edit the shape of
the path.
To edit text attached to a path, do one of the following:
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Double-click the text-on-a-path object with the Pointer or the Subselection tool.
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Choose the Text tool and select the text to edit.
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