for corel draw x3 gurus

[Steve C Wallace]

I know how to make text follow a path but how do you get, say a line of shapes to follow a path? I have a customer that wants repeating card suit; hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, to follow a path much the same way text follows a path. Any clues, I would appreciate the help. Thanks

[Tom Bull]

I bet there is a font with those symbols in it, give me a while and I will see what I can find.

[Tom Bull]

OK, not finding a font with them. But you could draw your own, export as a postscript or true type font. Will probably take a little trial and error to figure out all the nuances of using that command, but sure looks like it would work to create your own font of card suits.

[Tom Bull]

OK, found it:

http://www.dafont.com/hoyle-playing-cards.font

Have fun.

[Margaret Turco]

In x4 I have a docker called Insert Character and found the playing card characters. I inserted as text and it let me apply to a path just like other text. Hope that helps. It's in Text, then Insert Symbol Character.

[Ruben Salcedo]

Check this place (http://www.oberonplace.com/products/fitobjects/index.htm) they have a macro that does just that.


Ruben

[Steven Wallace]

but I was also wondering how to do it with shapes that were also not a part of a test font. The font thing is simply fitting text to font and the exact shapes the customer wants are not in a font list.

[Mike Null]

Steve

The link provided by Ruben does provides a macro to do what you want. Download the macro, open your drawing and activate the macro. That should get the job done.

[Steven Wallace]

I have a product that I think my customer my like.

[Steven Wallace]

Thanks Ruben you solved my problem.

[Ruben Salcedo]

You're welcome Steve,
I'm glad I was able to help.


Ruben