Text around arc tutorial

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thank you ofnuts, I thought it was one of your paths we would need to do this.

AnMal · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:09 pm **(#22)**

molly: thank you for taking the time to write this up for us all, it's very appreciated! i have a youtube video with this that i keep having to go back to every time i need to do this because i can never remember exatly how, but once i've seen it in plain writing i can usually remember it well.

erisian: i like that, very cool and very erisian.
(i'm glad there's only one of you, the world probably couldn't take much more "perfection"

).

i had to make something fun too:

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thank you AnMal. That is quite a work of art. This text around an arc is taking on a whole new dimension. We will soon be making Logo buttons. :teeth

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:21 pm **(#24)**

of nuts, I have not figured out how to install py files in my mac and get them to show. I know where to put them, but the only ones that show in my menus are the ones that Partha has already added natively

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

You need to start a terminal, CD to the directory with the plugin, and issue

Code: Select all

chmod +x the_plugin.py

You can also do a blanket:

Code: Select all

chmod +x *.py

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:49 pm **(#26)**

I have no idea what that is, and I have never been in terminal before.... :oops:

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Do you have a terminal in Mac?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

molly wrote:

Do you have a terminal in Mac?

Yes, there is one, buried in some "misc applications" folder.

Necessary in this case, unless there is another way to set the execution rights on a file.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Ha AnMal ! :mrgreen:

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

@2-ton...Can you right click on your py file and click properties and see if it has permissions checked?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

molly wrote:

@2-ton...Can you right click on your py file and click properties and see if it has permissions checked?

It's not that simple on OSX it seems

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Okay, just a thought. I guess Mac has a lot of things that are the same but in a different place...like Linux

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:53 am **(#33)**

AnMal wrote:

molly: thank you for taking the time to write this up for us all, it's very appreciated! i have a youtube video with this that i keep having to go back to every time i need to do this because i can never remember exatly how, but once i've seen it in plain writing i can usually remember it well.

erisian: i like that, very cool and very erisian.
(i'm glad there's only one of you, the world probably couldn't take much more "perfection"

).

i had to make something fun too:

Nice AnMal. Looks like a new line in toilet fresheners.

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:53 am **(#34)**

2-ton wrote:

Ah, perhaps make just the arc, not the whole circle!
Erisian, did you fancy up your text before or after you did the text to path????

Sorry Toni I missed this earlier. You have to do it afterwards otherwise the text layer ceases to be a text layer and becomes a graphic - then you can't map it to the path.

Mike · **Joined:** Aug 27, 2010 **Posts:** 491

I've got a song that ain't got no steps
I'm going to let the music move me around ...

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Mike · **Joined:** Aug 27, 2010 **Posts:** 491

molly wrote:

Touche ... :mrgreen:

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:31 pm **(#38)**

mike: i like that, it's so simple but so neat.
erisian: toilet fresheners? you're such a flatterer, brother!
esper: is that a challenge? i'm sure i could make pink lacquer to if i wanted it, so there!

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Quote:

is that a challenge? i'm sure i could make pink lacquer to if i wanted it, so there!

no challenge, just ruffled my pink feathers in a very quasi-butch way :rofl

AnMal · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:17 am **(#40)**

esper: well, now that i've tried and failed to make lacquer you can ruffle your pink feathers anyway you like

.