can anyone give me some advise please with coreldraw?

[graffica]

Draw a circle or oval.
Select this and the text.
Go to Toolbar, TEXT. Fit text to path.
On the toolbar, you´ll see an "abc" (small letters) with a curved line above it like a smiley mouth.
Click on.
On the toolbar find "Place on other side" and click.
Then "distance from path".
Edit. Break curve apart which separates the oval from the text.

Others who have Corel 12 might have a better way of doing it.

Good Luck, Chris

[Graeme Harrold]

I just did 200 individually named slate coasters, but used Engravelab for the entire job. I usually use Corel for all my graphics work and as yet have not engraved directly from it 1) not sure how and 2) not had the time to find out.

The post from Graffica is the way I do it. One of the hardest concepts is working out where the text will end up, however always try to place text on the outside of the curve to avoid bunching and possible character overlap (this also applies to cutter thickness).

All I know about Corel has been learned as I go along, through trial and error and with some guidance from the help files.

What I can offer is help in optimising line graphics for quicker cutting i.e. getting the order right and joining objects to minimise tool lift operations.

[mike dempsey]

Dear forum members

I am a very happy person this afternoon.
After playing about with the file this afternoon I have answered my own question successfully.
For anyone else out there who is self taught like myself I will let you know how I did it and it is so simple that I could kick myself.
This to write 2 pieces of text in a circle with the top part up the right way and the bottom part the right way up as well and not reading upside down

draw circle to correct dimension
type in text and click fit to baseline
click pick tool
click text (red diamond should show up)
right click red diamond (new toolbar appears)
click on right hand side icon (place on other edge)
The text will move to the inside of the circle and be the right way up

[Hugh Potter]

the other thing to consider when you ‘fit text to path’ is that the text will go along the line, in the direction you drew the line, normally never a prob as we all, i imagine draw a line from left to right, however, in the case you have here, it’s easy to simply copy / paste a curved line, flip it, and use it at the bottom, then you have probs with text being backwards etc ! to me a while to figure that one out !

[Graeme Harrold]

quote Hugh Potter:

the other thing to consider when you ‘fit text to path’ is that the text will go along the line, in the direction you drew the line, normally never a prob as we all, i imagine draw a line from left to right, however, in the case you have here, it’s easy to simply copy / paste a curved line, flip it, and use it at the bottom, then you have probs with text being backwards etc ! to me a while to figure that one out !

Hugh,

If that happens, select the "node edit tool" and right click on the offending line, then select "reverse path" hey presto the line now goes the other way…………

[Hugh Potter]

well, i’ve just learned another thing !! cheers !