wrapping text around big letter

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wrapping text around big letter

Im trying to get a block of text to form / wrap around a single letter. The letter itself is just another text box with a large font size.

Say if you import an image and apply the Instant Alpha to it, a block of text will flow or "wrap" around parts of the image. I want the same thing to happen to a large letter (another text block with a single letter with a large font size).

Or would I have to make the letter in photoshop and export it as a png to get the text to flow perfectly around it in IBA?

Thanks!

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Feb 17, 2012 3:17 PM

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Answer 1

Fabe

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Feb 17, 2012 4:04 PM in response to tyepoe

Tyepoe - I did this quickly. It can be cleaner with a little time and attention. I outlined the letter W in Keynote and the pasted the outline into a page of text. Lastly I pasted the W on top. That's my fast solution. I am sure you could do something very nice in Photoshop first. - Fabe

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Answer 2

Feb 17, 2012 5:40 PM in response to Fabe

Also, You can draw a shape with the freehand shape tool.(bottom of the shapes)

No need to go out side of IBA.

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tyepoe Author

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Feb 17, 2012 5:51 PM in response to tyepoe

awesome those are both great recommendations. I guess your technique would be best, Barnheisel, for staying inside the program but if I have more complicated text forms I want wrapped I will probably go inside of photoshop and edit it that way.

I guess there is no option for flowing text around other text elements, which kinda makes sense...that could get messy

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Answer 4

JO'M

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Feb 17, 2012 6:18 PM in response to tyepoe

The previous answers are both good. Just to make it a little clearer, you can't wrap around a letter but you can wrap around a shape. It's the order of the three objects that's important. It's very rough but you'll see below the shape drawn using the pen tool (shaded so you can see it better for this illustration) is above the main text box but below the box that holds the big T. The wrap attribute affects only things that are below it in the stacking order.

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