Full Version: Fit Text To Path/Macros
From: Carl (CSEWELL) [#6]
13 Jul 2006
To: Shaddy [#3] 13 Jul 2006
Excellent job on the macro!
The 'beauty' of VBA programming is demonstrated in your macro: it does one thing extremely well that would be very time consuming to do it manually. If you only have to do it once, than manually may be acceptable. With the visibility of the forum, I imagine that you've saved a lot of people a lot of time. Not necessarily today, but down the road. Hopefully, the macro will be easy to find (David?). You also gave them a feature they might not have been able to offer their customers, or something that might differentiate them from another engraver.
And the VBA macro doesn't have to be elegant or contain lots of (or any) error checking. Providing the source code will give those more adventurous types the opportunity to modify your macro, thereby creating something totally new.
Thanks!
From: PenMan [#7]
14 Jul 2006
To: Shaddy [#3] 14 Jul 2006
From: Swami [#8]
14 Jul 2006
To: ALL
From: Shaddy [#9]
14 Jul 2006
To: Swami [#8] 16 Jul 2006
The ones that have a GMS as the extension, you save it in
C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 13\Draw\GMS
Will be different for the other versions. I've never had a version before 12, so I'm unsure of others.
Then to run it, you click on TOOLS==VISUAL BASIC==PLAY then you select the macro to run
Use the pulldown next to "Macros in" to choose the proper GMS file or project. That will load all the runable macros to the box above it. Then select the macro and click RUN.
For this particualr macro... have the text boxes selected (and curve if you're going that far) before you run it... it uses your selection to know what to alter.
Shaddy
From: Swami [#10]
16 Jul 2006
To: ALL
I tried the Macro, That macro thing is so cool and EASY.
Are there any other Macros i can try out????????
From: Shaddy [#11]
16 Jul 2006
To: Swami [#10] 17 Jul 2006
http://www.oberonplace.com/vba/drawmacros/index.htm
But the text sizer thing only came to be when someone asked for it... so if you have something you're looking for, maybe post and ask for something specific. Not that I can do it, but there's always a chance.
Shaddy
From: Carl (CSEWELL) [#12]
16 Jul 2006
To: Swami [#10] 17 Jul 2006