wordart measurements

[Carrie]

Carrie, you are not boring anyone! ~ I can hear the wheels turning as you
are
imagining new possibilities!....

you sound just like I do when I'm trying to work out a new creative
endeavor!....it really is FUN!...

it really seems that wordart should have a way to reduce the line space ~
just as it does for character space ~ but I'm leaning toward believing it
probably doesn't....
the best solution seems to be to divide the photo into sections and apply
the appropriate photo part to the different wordarts... the problem with
this
is the likely distortion of the photo when the wordart parts are put
together....

thanks for all the ideas and suggestions... it is fun to know there are
more
crazy, creative computer artists out there!...

JB

Seems like you should be able to reduce the space, and there are boxes that
look like this, as you say they aren't active.
But, if the MS experts here don't know, I don't know what else we can do.
I have looked up, downloaded, but not yet tried, some "fat" fonts (free)
Don't know how they'd work of it they'd be close together in lines.
Dividing the picture up and assigning a piece of it to each line sounds
possible, but kind of time consuming. Getting just the right part of the
picture in the right words/lines.
I'm glad you posted about this, I never did much with Word Art (at least
in Publisher, mainly just for occasional headings in Word) and this has
openned up something new for me to play with for awhile.

 

[JB]

the letters/characters can be brought closer together (can actually overlap
eachother) by using the "wordart character spacing" tool... found in the
toolbox for wordart = the "AV" with a double horizontal arrow below it.....
this tool moves the characters closer together ("tight) or farther apart
("loose")... "very tight" will usually provide a pretty large area when used
with really wide fonts (like "fat").... making the letters bold will also
help get a fatter font....
baby kruffy, gloo gun, gil sans ultra bold, porkys are some other wide fonts

I've played around in publisher quite a bit..... but I don't know much about
other programs... what is flash?.... what you describe sounds fun!...

JB

 

[Carrie]

So, you are saying the wordart character spacing tool doesn't work?

Flash is Macromedia Flash (now it's owned by Adobe, the newer versions, I
have an older one called MX when it was Macromedia) that makes animations,
like movies. I know some who have gotten it, bought a book or looked up
tutorials and learned it and do things with it like make and send Christmas
cards (in email) where you can click and drag and decorate a Christmas tree
(LOL). I have tried learning it many times, and it doesn't come easy for me.

It's animation/movies. When you open a webpage and something flahes on the
screen (an ad, usually) and moves around, sometimes you can click something.
There are also games you can fine and silly little movies and music. Some
who really know how to do it can make complex ones, with layers and scenes.
You can search for "online flash games" etc.

The program side of it (not what one sees when it's done and uploaded) has
a timeline and frames and you can add things to, make them move, or frame by
frame animation. You can add action scripts (Java scripts) that tell some
what to do. Make buttons to click on that do things, interactive stuff. It
also has a lot of fun graphics you can do, even if you don't make movies
from them.

You probably see it all the time and don't realize what it is.

Like on YouTube. If you right click on it, and it's flash it will say so
(and not the usual copy/past/save as, etc)

some of my practice pages (from when I was first starting out. You might
have to click the page to see/start it)
http://www.kingcon.com/starchild/flash02.html


http://www.angelfire.com/art3/starchild_dreams/shapes2.html (I shouldn't
have left the outline on the shapes)

Most of my practice I don't put on webpages.

There's a great site, an example of interactive flash ecards, if you look
up jacquie Lawson. I don't want to put the link because maybe we're not
supposed to put links to commercial sites (that aren't Microsoft) here.
There's also one called jibjab that makes some really detailed flash movies,
and has had some passed around a lot about the country, presidential
candidates, etc.

I'm trying to think of how to tie in the topic of Flash with Publisher to
justify this (LOL)

Just that you can make graphics in Flash (without animating them) and save
them or copy paste them into publisher.