Attaching text between two circles.

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August 3, 2018
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HI All,

I am fairly new to using illustrator. I cannot figure out how to attach text between two circles. It just combines it all and takes the whole image away leaving just bumps from the letters. Any help would be awesome!! I attached a pic to show you what I am trying to do.

Thanks

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edgrimley

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Like most all things in Illustrator you have to do things in separate pieces, in this case 3. The outer circle, the text, and the center circle.

phyllisl37188515Author

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So how does the text attach then and I also need text on top to attach.

John Mensinger

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They are not attached.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

Your description of the undesirable result you're getting isn't clear, so it's hard to guess exactly what you're doing and where/why it's going wrong.

Use the Type on a Path tool to set the type on the smaller inner circle, then add the outer circle independently of the type.

phyllisl37188515Author

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I was using the type on a path tool. It was not working at all.

John Mensinger

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phyllisl37188515 wrote
I was using the type on a path tool. It was not working at all.

Well again, it's difficult to guess exactly what you mean by that.

Use the Ellipse tool to draw an ellipse (hold shift to constrain to a perfect circle)
Choose the Type on a Path tool and click on the Ellipse
You should now have an active insertion point (blinking cursor) that will respond to typing input and flow the text you type around the path.

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