Style of the text to make it bend, curve, like powerpoint

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Style of the text to make it bend, curve, like powerpoint

Is there a quick way to make text bend and curve in a different direction using keynote. The effect which i am wanting to do is very similar in powerpoint under "quick styles and effects". Does anyone know how to do this?

Imac, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 29, 2008 4:18 PM

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Answer 1

LAEAGLES Author

Level 1

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Mar 12, 2008 2:42 PM in response to Kyn Drake

Thank you, but i find it serously brutal you can do what I want and have to pay for another application. I mean, how are is it do get this into the application.

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Answer 2

Kyn Drake

Level 7

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Mar 1, 2008 5:48 AM in response to LAEAGLES

No, there's nothing IN Keynote, that allows you to do this, BUT there are applications in which you can create these effects then copy/paste into Keynote. Two are linked to here.

Art Text - http://www.belightsoft.com/products/arttext/overview.php

Comic Life - http://www.plasq.com/comiclife

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Answer 3

Mar 13, 2008 8:53 PM in response to LAEAGLES

You're cursing one text effect in Keynote vs. the non-designer friendly Powerpoint. That being said, why don't you build that specific text function you need in PPT and then open that PPT in Keynote. you may get some good results.

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Answer 4

Mar 13, 2008 10:45 PM in response to LAEAGLES

You can do this in Photoshop. Photoshop will keep text as a victor image when saved as a pdf.

For some reason Photoshop places a large overhead to a pdf. Opening the pdf in Preview, then saving it shrinks the files size of the pdf. Style and fx's can be add to the text in Photoshop with no problems.

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Rex Neff

Level 1

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Mar 16, 2008 12:27 PM in response to LAEAGLES

I have had success with 'Copy' from Power Point and 'Paste' to Keynote.

rex

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