CorelDraw, as a professional vector drawing tool, is often used in industries such as design, typesetting, and printing. And in these fields, text design is also a very important part, which can express information and make works more artistic. Curved text is often used to combine text and graphics by attaching it to specific arcs or shapes.

NO.1、 How to make CorelDraw arc-shaped text

In daily life, we often see curved text on some street flyers and advertisements. In CorelDraw, the process of creating curved text is not complicated. Below, we will demonstrate the method and operation flow of creating curved text in CDR.

1. Open CorelDraw to create a new blank document or open an existing project file, and use the ellipse tool or Bezier tool to draw any circle or arc. Here, we take a Bezier curve as an example to demonstrate how to make curved text.

Figure 1. Drawing arbitrary curves using Bessel

2. After drawing the curve, click on the text tool in the left toolbar.

Figure 2. Click to use text tools

3. Move the mouse cursor to the endpoint of the curve, and when the cursor changes to the style shown in the figure below, click the left button to enter text.

Figure 3. Click to enter text

4. As shown in the figure below, when we input any character, the characters will be arranged along the path of the curve.

Figure 4. Text arranged along a curved path

Curved text is not only suitable for curves, it can also be used for circles, rectangles, polygons, and so on. Next, taking ellipses as an example, we will demonstrate how to apply curved text on graphics. Click on the text tool in the left toolbar and move the mouse cursor over the border of the graphic. When the cursor changes to the "small curve" shown in the figure below, it indicates that the text has adapted to the current path and can be entered as curved text.

Figure 5. Click to enter text

4. After entering the text, we have completed the operation of attaching curved text to the graphic, as shown in the following example.

Figure 6. Text arranged along the border of the graphic

2、 CorelDraw Arc Text Scale Adjustment

After creating curved text in CDR, we will find that the text is combined with graphics or arcs. So when we need to adjust the overall scale of curved text, we will adjust it along with the scale of the graphics. If you only want to adjust the ratio of one of the text and image, you can first split it and then adjust it (shortcut key "Ctrl+K" can split it). Below we will explain how to adjust the proportion and size of curved text.

1. Draw any curved text and align it with the graphic path, then use the selection tool to select the curved text. When the black dots shown in the figure appear around the shape, it indicates that the current object is selected.

Figure 7. Selecting arc-shaped text

2. Move the mouse cursor to any one of the four black vertices, and when the stretch symbol appears, drag the mouse to zoom in or out of the overall proportion of the curved text (blue in the following image is a preview).

Figure 8. Stretching for scaling

This is one of the ways to adjust the ratio. Of course, we can also adjust the size of the text without splitting the curved text, without adjusting the proportion of the graphics. The following are the operational steps.

(1) We will open the text adjustment window by following the steps shown in the following figure.

Figure 9. Opening the Text Dock Window

(2) Use the selection tool to select the curved text that needs to adjust the text scale.

Figure 10. Changing the Fill Style and Color of Text

In the text adjustment window, we can not only adjust the size of the text, but also adjust the filling style, outline width, and color of the text. It is not difficult to see in the above figure that the proportion of the text has been reduced, but this has not affected the overall proportion of the graphics. And the text and graphics remain integrated and have not been separated.

3、 How to adjust the height between arcs and text in CorelDraw

When the contour line width of the graphic to which the curved text belongs is wide, it will obscure some of the text (as shown in the figure below). To solve this problem, we can adjust the spacing between text and graphics. Below we will demonstrate the specific steps of how CorelDraw adjusts the height between the arc and the text:

1. Use the selection tool to select the shape that needs to be adjusted.

Figure 11. Overly thick line width may obscure some text

2. When selected, we can see a small red dot somewhere in the text. This point is the endpoint of the text, also known as the starting point. Using the left mouse button to hold the red dot and drag it around will result in the following situation.

Figure 12. Dragging text endpoints to adjust text height

In the above picture, the black text represents the original position of the text, while the blue text represents the preview text position, and it can also display the distance between the text and the graphic in real time. When moving to the appropriate height and position, release the mouse to complete the adjustment.
 
The above is how to make CorelDraw curved text and the related content of CorelDraw curved text scaling. In CDR, we can use text tools to attach text to any curve or shape, thus achieving the effect of curved text. Of course, we can also split it and delete the curve to leave only the text. I hope this article can help everyone solve some problems when using CorelDraw to create curved text.