text on a curve not cooperating

[Songweaver1]

I made a line of text... I made a circle.... I cut the circle in half and deleted the bottom half... I selected the text ...held down shift...selected the half circle and clicked on "wrap text along a curve".... It did not activate. The window opened to the right place but I couldn't adjust anything... (not highlighjted)..
Any suggestions my friends?

[adze_cnc]

Wrong order. Select text on curve function. Then select text. Then shift+select curve.

[RalphPitz]

You may have accidently duplicated the arc vector and have them both selected. That won't work - you'll get the Text on a Curve screen but everything will be greyed out. Only one curve can be selected for Text on a Curve to work.

[Adrian]

Other thing to watch for is that the text is actually text. It has to be text created by the text tool in VCarve not imported vectors or text converted to curves.

[Songweaver1]

I selected The curve text feature ... the txt line and then the curve.... still greyed out.
I checked that there is only one text line and one curve selected and chose Wrap text feature.. still greyed out....

[Songweaver1]

I am using version 11.503 desktop.

[Songweaver1]

John 3 16.crv

here's the file

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here's the file I am working on.

[ZipperHead55]

It has to be a single line of text.

[Adrian]

Use the Distort tool when working with more than one line of text.

The Text on Curve tool will only work with one line as said.

[Songweaver1]

I am selecting a single line of text.
I have tried (A) on a curve, then text and curved line
(B) text.. then shift and curved line and then text on a curve...
still not working...???
Did anyone check out the file I sent? That should help...????

[FixitMike]

You need to select the text, right click on the text and select Break Text Block Into Lines. Then you can put a single line on a curve.

[FixitMike]

Wrong order. Select text on curve function. Then select text. Then shift+select curve.

I tried it both ways. Both worked. The only difficulty is that if you select the text and curve first, the text initially will be placed in the default location and you may have to change the settings to put it where you want it. Of course you have to do that anyway.

[martin54]

I am selecting a single line of text.
I have tried (A) on a curve, then text and curved line
(B) text.. then shift and curved line and then text on a curve...
still not working...???
Did anyone check out the file I sent? That should help...????

The text in the file you uploaded is multiple lines of text so as has already been said the text on a curve tool will not work & you should look at using the distort tool.

As FixitMike has said with the text in your file it needs to be broken into single lines & then you would only be able to use the tool for one line at a time

[Songweaver1]

I think the key is too keep the shift key held down .... I finally got it to work.... Funny how the details are so important. Thanks everyone for your help. I am learning alot.... due to all the help.

[Adrian]

Presumably you broke the text into lines though?