MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual page 362

In FreeHand, you can create many special effects with text. You can attach and
align text to a path, wrap text around graphics, create inline graphics, and apply
built-in special text effects such as shadows and underlines.
You can align text to a path that is open or closed, with curve or corner points.
The text can be linked to other paths or text blocks. Type specifications of text
attached to a path remain intact. You can apply transformations to text attached to
a path as you would any other object.
Text flows along the top of a closed path and center-aligns by default. On an open
path, only characters up to the first carriage return or tab appear. An indicator dot
appears in the text's link box if the text overflows the path. Left-aligned text on a
curved path is respaced automatically to avoid overlapping letters.
You can also make text flow inside a path; see "Flowing text inside a path" on page 364.
Select a text block and a path.
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Choose Text > Attach to Path, or click the Attach to Path button on the
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Text toolbar.
You can edit text directly on the path or use the Text Editor; see "Using the Text
Editor" on page 325.
Position the Text tool in a text block at the point where the text should split
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between the top and bottom of the ellipse, and press Enter (Windows) or
Return (Macintosh) to insert a carriage return.
Shift-click to select the text block and an ellipse.
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Choose Text > Attach to Path.
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If necessary, do one of the following:
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If the text disappears, choose Window > Inspectors > Object. In the Object
inspector, choose None from both the Top and Bottom text alignment menus.
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If the text flows in the wrong direction, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Macintosh) the path to select it. Choose Modify > Alter Path > Reverse Direction.
Note: