Type on a path tool

Is there any property to check text typed on a path tool?

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InDesign Type on a Path tool not available in toolbar

My InDesign 6 does not have a Type on a Path tool. The type tool icon in the tool bar does not have a fly-out option where I should be able to find it. I'm pretty sure it was there at one time. Any suggestions on how to restore this?

Thanks for the help. Using the Cleaner Tool and then reinstalling worked.
I must say though. Although I wanted to just clean the Indesign app. I ended up having to clean the entire CS.
I tried using the Enterprise Clean Tool to just select Indesign, but had trouble following the directions on entering code into Terminal.
It would be more user friendly if when you open the Cleaner Tool app it would then ask you what App(s) you want to clean.

Type on Path tool not typing on the path

Using the Type on a path tool I keep trying to type along the stroke of the shape though it keeps placing text inside the shape? I am using cs5. What am doing wrong?
Thanks.

Fred,
... I already had type inside. I also want to add type to the path.
Unless changed the the latest version(s), I am afraid the path can only be applied to one Type type at a time so that you will have to copy the path to appy another Type type (sorry, being the type that I am I had to type it in this way).

Reverse Type on a Path

Often I accidently click on the edge of a text box with the type on a path tool. How can I reverse that and remove the position lines and stuff that show up?

with Your text box selected, go to Type > Type on a Path > Delete Type from Path

Disabling "Type on a Path"

Is there a way to disable this function?
I regularly have to edit text within a grid of lines in illustrator. I can replace/edit text zoomed out, but when I try the cursor automatically changes to the type on a path tool. I then have to zoom in, edit text, zoom back out thousands of times a day. It would save me a bunch of time if I could set the type tool to ignore paths and only select text.
I could take the grid of lines on the files I'm working on and send them to back and lock them, but I am dealing with tens of thousands of files, and it's just not practical.
Anyone know of a way to get rid of type on a path, or at least prevent Illustrator from automatically switching to that tool when I hover the type tool over a path?

There is no good way to disable type on the path tool. There should be, it should be a separate subtool that never comes up automatically, or at least a setting to make it behave like that. Most instances of its usage are accidental.
Stopgap solutions involve locking or hiding objects, making sure your text objects are on top, and working more zoomed in than you want to.

Type on a Path handle stuck

I created a line and used the Type on a Path tool to add text to the line. While I was adding the text I realized I needed the line to be longer. I pulled the handle to make the line longer, but it leaves the text path the shorter length. I grabbed the text path handle to make it the same length as the line, but it won't expand. I can make the path shorter, but not longer. It's acting as if it doesn't realize the line got longer and so it stops at the original line length's end point. Is there a setting that is causing this issue or just a bug? Usually when this happens I end up making a new path and pasting the text onto it because I can't figure out what's going on.
Mac OSX 10.5.4
InDesign CS3 5.0.4

I don't seem to be able to reproduce the problem. It's often easier, I find, to manipulat type on a path using the direct select tool.
You might want to try replacing your preferences.

Type on a Path grayed out in CS3

I am new to Illustrator, following Help to run type around a circle. It tells me to select the type object and then select "Type on a Path," however, that option is mysteriously grayed out. What might I be doing wrong. Please help!
thanks!

Back up a few topics to the one titled "Entering Text." Read the subtopic, "Enter Text Along A Path."
In the Help area to which you are referring, where the instructions say to "select the type object," it means for you to select not just an *ordinary* type object, but a path that already has text attached to it (what I call a pathType object, but which Illustrator calls a "Type on Path object"). In other words, it assumes you have already typed text along a path and is telling you to select that kind of text object.
If you select that type...uh...KIND of object, you will then find the Type On A Path menu selectable, and you'll be able to get to the orientation options.
Start this way:
1. Ellipse Tool: Draw an Ellipse.
2. Type on a Path Tool: Click the edge of the ellipse and type characters.
3. Type menu: Type On A Path...
Don't worry. It's not you.
Illustrator has so-called "Point Type objects" and so-called "Area Type objects". But what one might expect to be referred to as "Path Type ojbects" are called "Type on Path objects". The Appearance Palette doesn't help. It labels all three as simply "Type".
AI's Javascript refers to them as "areaText", "pointText", and "pathText". But no one would know that, unless messing with Javascript.
The Document Info Palette--uh, no, that's a PANEL now--refers to them as "Point Type objects", "Area Type objects", and "Type on Path objects". But who would think to look there? And it only does that if you select Objects from its little hidden flyout menu. And who would think to do that?
There are, of course, not three, but SIX type tools. The regular one, the...uh..."Type Tool", can be used to create "Area Type objects" and "Type on Path objects" as well as "Point Type objects". So you don't really have to use the separate "Area Type Tool" and "Type on a Path Tool". If you click the edge of a closed path with the "Type Tool", you will create an "Area Type object"...unless you press Alt, in which case you will create a "Type on Path object". But if the path is open, clicking its edge with the "Type Tool" will create a "Type on Path object"...unless of course you press Alt, in which case it will create an "Area Type object".
Confused yet? No?
Then perhaps it's time to take a look at the cleverly-named Effect>Distort & Transform>Transform command. Or the Pathfinder menu commands which are not to be confused with the identically-named Pathfinder Panel buttons which don't do exactly the same things, or the Shape Modes which also reside in the Pathfinder Panel.
You'll also find three cutting tools, none of which work right, and a Page Tool that does not manipulate pages. Illustrator doesn't have any pages; it has an Artboard. The Page Tool doesn't move the Artboard, either; it moves the printing tiles.
Before quitting for the evening, be sure to kneel beside your computer, press your palms together and, solemnly rotating to face the twelve signs of the zodiac, recite these twelve words twelve times out-loud in a slow rythmic monotone: "Strokes and Fills are not Attributes but Appearances but Appearances have Attributes."
Welcome to Illustrator. ;-)
JET

Trying to type on a path (CS5) and get small circle with plus sign???

I am trying for the first time to type on a path that I have made. I go to the type tool, type one letter which never appears...but the small circle with a plus sign inside it appears right at that spot on the path. Would love to know what is happening...and how I resolve it. Have googled and searched my books to no avail!

I had been doing what you suggested...but in going back this morning to try it again, I discovered that the box for centered text was selected from an earlier project...and obviously that doesn't work on a path!
Thank you.

Type on a path problem...plz plz plz help!!!!

This is the image that I have created:-
I want to make the text 'Circle' be upside down i.e diaplay from left to right in the circle. But I am not able to do that. Plz help. Thanks in advance!
P

ScottWeichert wrote:
You need two paths.. one for the top text, and one for the bottom text. Adjusting the Type on a Path Options for the path witht he bottom text will allow you to move it to the outside and right reading.
Not really!
1 Create your text on a path as you have already done
2 but type the word circle backward "elcriC"
3 select the backward type word circle with the text tool
4. go to the character panel and type 180 in the character rotate input field and hit return
That should do it. That is what I did here and it is all on one path. You can also give it a baseline shift to get it to align better with the path itself.

Path tool long when using arrays

Hey Powershell people. I'm running into an array issue in powershell where the error "Copy-Item : The specified path, file name, or both are too long" is thrown back at me. However, the odd thing is if I type the copy path in manually the script it works
fine, so the error only occurs when the script directly references the item in the array by its numbered location. Eventually, I want to create a for loop for this that will reference each file name in the array, so i'm hoping I can directly reference
the array pointer.
$DTS = get-date -format "dd-MM-yyy_hh-mm-ss"
New-Item c:\$DTS -type directory
$get = Get-Content C:\array.txt
Start-Sleep -s 1
$testdata=@"
$get
($testdata | Select-String -Pattern '(?<=t.s.\\.).+?(?=\. u s p)' -AllMatches).Matches | %{$_.Value} | Out-File c:\test.txt
Start-Sleep -s 1
$get2 = Get-Content C:\test.txt
$get2 = $get2 -replace " ", "" | Out-File c:\test.txt
$get = Get-Content C:\test.txt
Copy-Item "\\server\C$\Program Files\Projects\$get[0].usp" \\server2\C$\$DTS
Note, if I do something like $get4 = $get[0] the script will properly reference $get[0] if $get4 is inserted into the copy path .

Sorry, let me try to explain a little better. The script is suppose to create a folder using the date/time on root C:, read from array.txt file (has the file
information in it), parse out all files names from array.txt into text.txt, parse out all spaces from text.txt, use the file names in text.txt array as a variable to copy the files from one location to another.
Pseudo Example
Parsed file names in text.txt
1234567890
0987654321
6789054321
Loop Pseudo
$filename[] = ReadFrom text.txt
Loop through all file names in text.txt
CopyFrom C:\FilePath\$filename[].usp to C:\FolderWithDateAndTime

Path tool CS5 verses CS6 ?

When making a circle or a curved section. I used to be able to grab the line segment between the 2 points without the handles rotating and effecting the previous shape of the line. In CS6 the handle rotate and change the shape of previous line. Is there any way to make path tool behave like CS5?

If in photoshop cs6 you select the Path or Direct Selection Tool and check Constrain Path Dragging, does that make a difference?

What happened to freeform path tool?

one used to be able (Ps-CS6) to draw multiple lines and then stroke them all at the same time. but, in CC 2014, one can only draw/stroke one line at a time?
say whaaaaaat? (O.o;)

more tolerable than not being able to use the freeform path tool. (^.^)
btw, i have another open discussion about CC 2014 not playing nicely with the radial menu of my Intuos 5 (pro)...perhaps you could look at that and offer thoughts?
thanks again!

Warping skewed type on a path

Hi,
As you'll see in the attached screenshot, I wanted to type along a path that mimmicks the marquee in the photo that is in the background. I was able to get it to do that pretty easily by just drawing the path, type on a path and then type on a path options/skew. The only slight thing is that the last couple of words start to curve back out when I want them stay against the marquee rail.
Is there a way to warp it in InDesign?
Or would it be easier to do this in another program?
Thanks!

Well I would likely build this in AI or another application.
At both ends of the line, try curving them down slightly. The marquee itself shows a slight outward splay, and if you followed it too closely then that may be what is affecting the ends of the line.
Mike

Shape color - Type on a path

Is there a way to keep the color on a shape when you use Type on a Path without making a new fill in the Appearance panel?
Thanks

Awesome.
I suppose I could just duplicate the layer then, and type on that. Then group.
Ctrl C, Ctrl F, type, select both layers, then Ctrl G
Good enough.
Thanks !

Converting legacy type on a path

Why won't Illustrator type on a path convert properly in CS5?

Path type on a circle is shifted and almost impossible to bring back to the
original location.
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