Once you have a way to open the Fontwork dialog (not the Fontwork Gallery!), you can create text on a curve by: The dialog window looks like this (click to view full-size): The Fontwork dialog is a non-modal, context sensitive dialog: once you open it, it stays open, and it will toggle between inactive and active depending on whether the currently selected object supports curved text. The sample document attached below contains a customized Drawing toolbar that includes the Fontwork dialog button. You can add it as a new menu entry, or as a new toolbar item, or both. In the standard "Galaxy" icon set, the A is on a curve (see inset below) in other icons sets, it is a plain letter. The interface item you need to add is named “Fontwork” under the “Format” category, and its icon is a blue letter “A”. The Fontwork dialog is no longer officially supported and it may be removed entirely at some point, but hopefully not until something better is available to replace it.įor general instructions in customizing your menus or toolbars, see Customizing in the Getting Started Guide. The Fontwork dialog was removed from the normal menus and toolbars with OOo 2.0, so if you need to use it, you first need a way to open the dialog. This is the older method for setting and formatting text along an arbitrary curved line. For that, you have to use the more flexible method, described below. The Fontwork Gallery only supports shaped text it does not allow you to place text on any arbitrary curved line. See theįontwork Gallery section of the Draw Guide for details on how to use it.
This is the standard, supported, recommended way to create "shaped" text and other graphic text effects. This feature is supported by two different methods: one is easy to use but not very flexible, the other is flexible but more difficult to use. Placing text on a curve in Draw or Impress
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