Lightburn Demo 17 – Text On Curve

0:00 when we first headed texting like burn

0:03 the feedback that we got predominantly

0:06 from people that was that they wanted to

0:08 be able to attach text to a path and

0:12 that was how it was worded people always

0:16 said I want to be able to attach my text

0:20 to an object so that I can make the path

0:23 follow that object now this is

0:25 incredibly flexible it allows you to do

0:28 things like this so you can bend text in

0:32 strange ways the feedback that we’ve

0:36 gotten since is that most people don’t

0:41 want to bend their text on an arbitrary

0:44 path but instead want to just wrap their

0:47 text around a circle and quite a few

0:51 people found the attaching text to a

0:54 path and node editing the path or

0:56 attaching it to a circle to be

0:59 cumbersome so as an example if I create

1:01 a circle you make it not filled so that

1:06 you can see it so if I take this text

1:10 and that circle and I say apply the path

1:14 to text now the circle starts here and

1:17 the text is centred so the text wraps

1:19 this way and you would have to rotate

1:21 the circle and so on so there’s there’s

1:24 a number of reasons why it is not as

1:27 intuitive as it could be and as I said

1:30 the predominant thing that people want

1:32 to do is wrap their text around a circle

1:36 so we’ve made a little tweak and if you

1:40 zoom in here you can see this little

1:41 blue dot Blue means Bend if I grab the

1:45 bend and ‘el and move it text will now

1:49 just bend you can move this handle out

1:52 here you can move it in here you can

1:55 basically put it wherever you like this

1:58 handle will only be shown on text

2:01 objects the text objects are not

2:05 actually attached to a path this is now

2:08 a native feature within light burn so if

2:11 I tell the text to align to

2:13 bottom you can now see that the bend

2:15 handle is on the bottom of the text if I

2:17 align the text to the top the bend

2:19 handle is at the top and in fact it’s

2:21 actually at the bottom of the next line

2:24 which is slightly awkward but it’s just

2:28 how text works unfortunately the nice

2:31 thing about the bend handle and bending

2:34 text in general is that it is much more

2:36 generic and simpler to use than the

2:42 previous text so I haven’t got the

2:44 cursor finished yet I’m still working on

2:46 this but to give you an idea you can do

2:49 multiple lines and this doesn’t have any

3:01 weird behaviours if you put the these in

3:04 a group or if you manipulate them in

3:07 other ways the text will stretch as

3:11 multiple lines are added so you’ll

3:15 actually see this text on the outside is

3:17 starting to get wider and that’s just

3:19 because you are putting this text in a

3:21 circle and you’re squishing it or

3:22 stretching it there’s not really going

3:24 to be a way around that however for the

3:29 generic case where somebody has a shape

3:32 like this that they want to have their

3:37 text sort of wrapped around it’s pretty

3:40 easy to line this up now you can

3:42 basically just eyeball it we don’t have

3:46 a way of entering this exactly but I

3:48 suspect that that’s not going to be a

3:51 very big problem if you do want to use

3:55 the old apply LightBurn text to path functionality

3:58 you can still certainly do that there’s

4:00 nothing preventing that from being used

4:05 however the new version is much more

4:09 intuitive and it’s simpler to use I can

4:13 do this I can also flip the text

4:16 horizontally or vertically that you

4:19 couldn’t do with text attached to a path

4:22 because the path dictates whether the

4:24 text is flipped or not so as I said

4:27 there

4:27 a number of reasons why this is a little

4:30 bit more generic and simpler so

4:34 hopefully people like it we’ll be

4:36 rolling this out with the next release I

4:38 expect