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Tuesday quick tip: what to do when text on a path messes up as you mirror

June 2, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

mirroring text

The day I learned about placing text around a circle was a great day! I had been doing it manually before that. LOL! And then my mind was completely blown when I found out you could put text around ANY shape. (If you don't know how this works, you'll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: Compound Path, flip horizontally, htv, mirror, Text, text on path, text to path

Hack to make sure text around a circle is centered

October 24, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today I want to share a quick tip with you about getting text in the right spot when you wrap it around a circle or arc. (If you don't know how to do that, see this post). It's not hard to do, but one thing that I used to struggle with was making … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: alignment, Text, text on path, words on circle

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 4)

August 23, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

words on circle in silhouette

We’re in the midst of a series about Text Myths in Silhouette Studio – misunderstandings that Silhouette users have when working with wording. If you haven’t read about Text Myths #1-15, start here. The 5 myths today deal with the location of text. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: backwards, control point, horizontal, justification, letters, letters on circle, mirror, slider, text box, text edit, text on circle, text on path, text to path, upside down, vertical, words, words on circle

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #8 — How Text or Object on Path affect cut style

March 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette curve word

You may not know this, but in Silhouette Studio you can make words go around a shape. That's called Text on Path. New in version 4, you can also take a shape and use Object on Path to create duplicates of that shape around the contours of another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: clip art, control point, curve text, curve word, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, jpg, no cut, object on path, photo, photograph, png, point, raster, replicate, send, Text, text on path, vector

Object on Path Shape: A new version 4 option for replicating shapes

July 29, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

One of the slick new features of Silhouette Studio version 4 is a Replicate option called Object on Path. This is very similar to Text on Path, which is most often used to wrap text around a circle. What Object on Path does is allow you to put any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: convert to path, object on path, replicate, text on path, version 4

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