HOW DO YOU FORM TYPE TO A SHAPE?

Question

I have a logo design that requires the type to fit is a shape of a pennant. I am trying to avoid doing the manually with each individual point. I want the base line and the Cap-height to for within the shape. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

> I think it's because I didn't fill the object that I place on top.
Fill/stroke of the path being used to define the Envelope doesn't matter.
The problem is the behavior of the Illustrator's Envelopes. As soon as Illustrator creates an Envelope, the handles of its anchorPoints are extended from the beginning; even on Envelopes with no curved segments. That becomes a stumbling block when you then try to change the shape of the Envelope, because it's difficult to get the handles aligned correctly so as to *not* bend straight segments of the content.
So if you create an Envelope by, for example, Make With Mesh, and then try to move the point of your rooftop, you have to deal with the extended handles problem. Simply retracting the handles does not serve, because that "sucks" the content toward that anchorPoint.
If instead, you go ahead and first draw a path in the desired shape of the Envelope, and then create the Envelope via Make With Top Object, you still get the often infuriating automatically-extended handles. (They are there in the Envelope shown in my screen shot.) But because the Envelope was *created* already at the shape you want, you don't have to muck with them.
Don't get me wrong; you just as often *want* Envelopes to begin with extended handles as not. The trouble is, Illustrator doesn't give you the choice.
FreeHand's Envelopes do much better. It is a trivial matter to pre-define an Envelope in FreeHand which, when applied, will simply have retracted corner points.
JET