Text on a Circle in QuarkXPress

Wed, Jun 4, 2008

Tip

Believe it or not, it’s really easy to set type around the outside of a circle in QuarkXPress:

Text on a Circle in QuarkXPress

  1. Use any tool to create a circular object.
  2. Change its content type to “text”. (Item> Content> Text)
  3. Change its shape type to “line”. (Item> Shape> Freehand line)
  4. Get the Text tool and type your text on the new path.

To control the starting point of the text, you can use the usual text formatting techniques such as left indent, tabs or spaces, or use the Scissors tool to cut the outline of the circle. (The Scissors tool is added when Quark’s free Scissors XTension is active.)

Text on a Circle in QuarkXPress

Text on a Circle in QuarkXPress

If you’re using QuarkXPress 7 and above, be sure to check out the Text On A Path controls in the Measurements palette. There, you can make the text align to the path in all kinds of weird ways, flip it to the other side of the path, and adjust the width of the stroke on the path.

Text on a Circle in QuarkXPress

This post was written by:

Jay Nelson - who has written 507 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7, and the QuarkXPress 7 training at Lynda.com. In addition, Jay writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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