00:02:15 It's very likely that you won't
00:02:17 have that font on your system, however,
00:02:19 in which case, you can go with any other font you like.
00:02:22 All right, now I'll select this type size option,
00:02:24 and set it to 94 points, so that
00:02:27 we have some great, big text to work with.
00:02:30 And I'll go ahead and change the alignment
00:02:32 by clicking on align center, which won't
00:02:35 necessarily put the text where you want it to be,
00:02:37 but we'll take care of that in a moment.
00:02:39 Next, I'm going to click on the word character
00:02:41 to bring up the character panel,
00:02:42 and I'm going to click on this
00:02:43 down-pointing arrowhead associated
00:02:45 with the kerning value, and I'm going
00:02:47 to change it to Optical in order to
00:02:50 let Illustrator adjust the character spacing on the fly.
00:02:53 And now I'll press the escape key to dismiss that panel,
00:02:55 and I'll press escape again in order
00:02:58 to exit the text entry mode, and that
00:03:00 takes me back, as you can see, to the black arrow tool.
00:03:03 Now, when you have the black arrow tool selected,
00:03:05 you're going to see a few handles around your text.
00:03:08 This handle in the center determines
00:03:10 how the text is aligned on the path outline.
00:03:13 Notice if I drag it too far downward,
00:03:15 then I'm going to flip the text to
00:03:17 the bottom of the path, like so.
00:03:19 At which point you may see that line gets shorter.
00:03:22 It does have a habit of changing size,
00:03:24 but you can still drag it back to the other side,
00:03:27 and you can drag it so that it snaps
00:03:28 into alignment with that center point
00:03:30 at the top of the ellipse.
00:03:33 Now notice that we have a red plus sign
00:03:35 inside of a square, which tells us that
00:03:37 we have some overflow text, and you can
00:03:39 address that by dragging this right edge
00:03:42 all the way down to the right hand end point.
00:03:45 And then, go ahead and scroll over
00:03:46 to the other side of your document,
00:03:48 and drag that left edge all the way
00:03:51 to the far left point, and that
00:03:53 will go ahead and exactly center
00:03:55 your text on the path outline.
00:03:57 All right, now we need to grab the text
00:03:59 that goes along the bottom edge of the ellipse,
00:04:01 and that text is found inside the final
00:04:03 version of our three page document.
00:04:05 It's this byline right here, and you
00:04:07 can just go ahead and click on it
00:04:08 with the black arrow tool, and then
00:04:10 press control C, or command C on a Mac to copy it,
00:04:13 then switch back to your document in progress,
00:04:16 and click on the bottom edge of the ellipse
00:04:18 to select it, and then press the T key
00:04:20 to switch back to the type tool.
00:04:22 Now, go ahead and click on this bottom edge,
00:04:24 anywhere you like, and press control V,
00:04:27 or command V on the Mac, in order
00:04:29 to paste that text into place.
00:04:31 Now, in my case, the text is coming in
00:04:33 on the wrong side of the path,
00:04:34 I'm not really that concerned about that
00:04:36 right yet, and that's because I want
00:04:38 to increase the size of my text
00:04:40 by pressing control A, or command A on the Mac,
00:04:44 to select all the text inside that object.
00:04:46 And now I'm going to change the style
00:04:48 from italic to regular, and I'm going to press
00:04:51 that keyboard shortcut to increase the type size,
00:04:53 that is control, shift, greater than sign here on the PC,
00:04:56 or command, shift, greater than sign on the Mac.
00:04:59 And if you're working along with me,
00:05:00 you want to press that keyboard shortcut
00:05:02 three times in a row, so one, two, three like so
00:05:06 in order to increase the size of that text.
00:05:08 And next, I'll go ahead and click on
00:05:10 the word character up here in the control panel,
00:05:12 and confirm that the kerning is indeed set
00:05:14 to optical, and because it is,
00:05:17 I'll just go ahead and press the escape key
00:05:19 a couple of times in order to escape the text entry mode.
00:05:22 And now we need to reperform those steps
00:05:24 that we applied to the top half of the ellipse,
00:05:27 so I'm going to go ahead and drag
00:05:29 this right edge all the way over to the right anchor point,
00:05:33 and the left edge, as you can see,
00:05:35 is almost all the way to the left point,
00:05:37 but not quite, and now I'll just go ahead
00:05:39 and drag the center handle so that
00:05:41 it exactly aligns to the center point of the path outline,
00:05:45 and then I'll click off the text to deselect it,
00:05:48 and I'll go ahead and center my zoom
00:05:50 by pressing control 0, or command 0 on the Mac.
00:05:53 And that, friends, is how you create
00:05:54 text along a path outline, whether
00:05:57 it starts off as an ellipse, or some
00:05:59 other shape, here inside Illustrator.