Spiral text.

[Jonzjob]

I am trying to find out how to create spiral text for some cards I want to do. I normally use Open Office and don't have and can't qualify buying M/soft Word. I remember that I use to do it on M/soft Publisher.

Any ideas please folks?

 

[Randy B. Singer]

What you want to do, to the best of my knowledge, can't be done in a word processor.

What you want is either a page layout program, or a specialized program for manipulating text along a curve that you define (i.e. it does vector graphics). I suppose most "drawing" programs (as opposed to "paint" programs) would do the job too.

An inexpensive, but quite good, page layout program is:

Swift Publisher

Swift Publisher — Desktop Publishing and Page Layout Software for Mac

Swift Publisher is an easy publishing and page layout application for Mac. Over 500 project templates, 2000+ images included. Get you free trial!

www.belightsoft.com

Review (4.5 out of 5 mice!):

Swift Publisher 4 review: Full-featured desktop publishing for next to nothing

An affordable, all-in-one desktop publishing solution for Mac users thatu2019s as easy to use as it is elegant.

www.macworld.com

There is a whole long list of desktop publishing apps for the Mac, and I'd be happy to give it to you if you like. I don't know which ones in particular might suit your needs best. This one is very popular among professionals:

Affinity Publisher

Affinity – Professional Creative Software

Here is a free vector drawing program:

Inkscape

Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape

Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.

inkscape.org

 

[Randy B. Singer]

Apple's Pages is FREE. You can download it from:

‎Pages

You should be able to do what you want to do in Pages:

https://visualrsoftware.com/mac/how-to-curve-text-in-pages/#f7

 

[chscag]

John:

I agree with Randy about Apple's Pages. It's quite capable of doing layout work.

Another program that I have used for bulletins and layout work is "iStudio Publisher" which is very similar to MS Publisher.

iStudio Publisher • Page Layout Software for Desktop Publishing on Mac

Create stunning documents with iStudio Publisher. Powerful and intuitive page layout software for desktop publishing. Designed exclusively for Mac.

www.istudiopublisher.com

 

[Jonzjob]

Thank you for the links gents. I haven't had much chance to look at your links yet, but tomorrow??

I used the spiral text on birthday cards I did for friends and family birthdays and it's quite amusing to watch as they spin the card round to read it .The next is our neighbour next Friday !