Creating a LOT of text on a spiral

[ibrahimmuhsin]

Hi all,

I have 50,000 words that I need to put on a really long spiral, the text will start at the outtermost line and conclude towards the end of the spiral. 

Legibility is not an issue here.

I have attached two artworks on how I approached it, I created a spiral of 75 lines and then made that a typable object, but the moment I bring in all of the text, Illustrator crashes.

Would anyone please have some guidance or advice how I could solve this?

Thank you

Screenshot of the spiral as a type object

[Monika Gause]

Which version is this?

If it's a version prior to CS6 or your computer only has a few GB RAM, then it might just be a memory issue. If it is a current version and is otherwise working well and has been restarted very recently, then you might have reached the limit of text on a path.In case you also have InDesign, you might try if it is more tolerant.

[ibrahimmuhsin]

I was just trying to do it in InDesign but how would I go about creating a spiral?

I tried using Libraries to bring the text path from Illustrator to InDesign but that just ends up as an image and not a typable path.

Any advise will be highly appreciated.

Thank you

[Anna Lander]

as spiral is a quite simple line with empty attributes, you can just copy/paste it from Illustrator to InDesign. If all's good, you can use and edit it like an internally created path

[Anna Lander]

also, you can divide the spiral for shorter parts using Scissors tool. The only problem this case will be to define the proper text parts length

[ibrahimmuhsin]

You're right but since all circles will be different sizes especially the innermost circle so it's very hard to calculate exactly how much text I should put on each path. 

Thank you for your feedback though!