Curved text possible?

[ELS Prothero]

Folks,
I made a vertically oriented y axis text label for a data plot once. The text was written in a field with a transparent background, then a screen capture of the text field area, then rotating the captured image 90 degrees. It worked great. Obvious limitation was that the background was included in the capture. I wonder if something like this could be done letter by letter, then re-captured in a summary graphic.

I seem to remember someone making a plugin, years ago, that made text on a curve. 


Best,
Bill

William Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Apr 27, 2022, at 8:53 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It will be an iOS app.
> 
> 
> groeten,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Op wo 27 apr. 2022 om 17:45 schreef Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
>> There is not a native way to do this in LiveCode.
>> 
>> An approach might be to use the shell() function (see Dictionary) to
>> pass the text to some external graphics utility that renders and image
>> of it curved and then import the image back into Livecode. There may be
>> other work-arounds.
>> 
>>> On 4/27/2022 11:12 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hi There,
>>> 
>>> I am in the need for curved text.
>>> User input via a text field need to have a copied curved text output.
>>> Is this even possible in Livecode?
>>> I was thinking of text to the points of a path? Something like that?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Greetings William
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