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Letters made into a shape
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:33 pm
by auntdooz
Is this even possible with SCAL? What I am wanting is the word TEACH in the shape of a heart. I have found several tutorials for other things on you tube. I used the search feature here also but nothing is exactly what I am looking for. I am using version 3 and a cameo....TIA
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:39 am
by papasue
I'm not quite sure if this is what you had in mind or ????
This is done using object/duplicate and basically making a bunch of rows and columns of the words, you can mix up fonts, colors and sizes. Add the heart from the shapes library and do a front minus back to delete all the words outside the heart.

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Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:43 pm
by auntdooz
Similar to that. How did you get rid of the parts of the word that are on the outside of the heart? I don't have that as an option. I have used that option in the past when making split letters, but it is grayed out now.
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:46 pm
by papasue
Not sure about your question. I put together a little tut of the steps I did maybe this will help.

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Let me know if this answers your question
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:24 am
by jrichards
That makes sense but what if you wanted to squish the word "teach" just once inside a circle or a heart? Can that be done? I know the letters would be different sizes but that is okay.
Jan
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:24 am
by jrichards
That makes sense but what if you wanted to squish the word "teach" just once inside a circle or a heart? Can that be done? I know the letters would be different sizes but that is okay.
Jan
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:26 pm
by auntdooz
This is more what I am wanting to do except with the word teach.
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:24 am
by talanhart
In Illustrator, this is called Envelope Distort. The SVG file looks a little better than the picture.
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:51 am
by jrichards
That is what I was talking about also. Can it be done in SCAL? I am not very good with other programs.
Jan
Re: Letters made into a shape
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:17 am
by talanhart
It can be done in SCAL, but it would involve a lot of node manipulation.