Curved text

posted on October 10th, 2010, 1:23 pm

Does anyone know where I can find a (preferably free) program that allows you to write in curved text, similar to the war Registry numbers on Starfleet ships are written?

posted on October 10th, 2010, 1:27 pm

you might be able to do it on this site.http://cooltext.com/

posted on October 11th, 2010, 5:42 am

Erm, Microsoft Word?  That's free isn't it?

Perhaps not, doesn't OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) have something similar to WordArt?

How about the Gimp?
YouTube
- How to make Curved Text in Gimp

Youtube video showing how to do it.

posted on October 11th, 2010, 8:09 am

Inkscape can do it (make a path and then apply text to follow) Should then be a simple act of exporting as pdf and overlayin it on the texture of choice.

Interface can be a bit clunky, but it works 

posted on October 11th, 2010, 9:43 am

word isnt free. but it might as well be considering how many people actually pay for it

i know for a fact that word 2010 word art can make curved text. see my attachment

the online version cant do word arts.

my attachment is in 2010 .docx format.

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