[comp.sys.mac.misc] TypeAlign

skippy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ian Chesterton) (02/17/91)

Hi All,
   I have a question for people who have used or are using Adobe's
   TypeAlign program.  I was wondering: will it let me make a curve
   and have the text follow that curve?  I plan to use the output
   with PageMaker 4.0.  So if anyone can throw me a selling pitch,
   or compare it to Broderbund's (sorry I can't get that o right)
   TypeStyler, I would like to hear it!

   --- Ian ---
   

hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover) (02/22/91)

From article <7596@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, by skippy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ian Chesterton):
> Hi All,
>    I have a question for people who have used or are using Adobe's
>    TypeAlign program.  I was wondering: will it let me make a curve
>    and have the text follow that curve?  

I am currently using Type allign on a 5mg SE/30 with ATM and find it
satisfactory. Yes, it will let you give a curve and bind type to the
curve. The baisc curve is apparently part of a circular arc, but you can
also draw a freehand curve. I find this hard to do in a smooth fashion,
but after much tweaking, it can look good. It's not as easy as a post
dcript progam like Cricket Graph, but the price is right. (btq, I am
using a Personal LW SC for output.)
Bruce Hoover