Hi Frank,
How close to the 'edge' of a printed sheet you can get, whether pictures or text can depend on the capabilities of a particular printer.
In your 3 examples there isn't any text that fits a curve, it can be done with textboxes or with a table grid overlay and normal paragraph justification.
In your 2nd example the title is centered, the subtitle right justified and the block of text mid right is left justified. Each of these can be done in a text box or table cell.
Often it's a matter of just 'cutting out' the label or using Avery or other preformed labels. The last pack of CD labels and 'press' that I purchased came with 100 labels, the press and the software for something like $9.00
and it works fairly well.
If you're staying with Word to do this, there are several templates for CDs in Word at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=cd&av=TPL000
(set the search to use Word 2003 or earlier only by editing your list of MS Office products via the 'My Office Online' link on the top right of that page). This is one sample one of a CD face label
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102580261033.aspx
This may give you a couple of ideas. It's using five different shape pieces for constructing the disk, rather than try to work with the 'donut' shape.
Avery has a template for their labels and there are a number of shareware label template sets available.
Part of the illusion of looking like text follows the center hole curve or the right edge of the disk can come from the arrangement of the entries.
On the left side of the
disk longer entries
followed by some
shorter entries
can look like a
curve is being
followed when it
is just the layout
of the text sequence
as this block may show.
Now having said that,you can use Word's 'edit wrap points' choice on a shape and have text outside of a shape wrap around the shape closely rather than trying to follow the inside of a shape when setting the shape to 'tight' text wrapping. For example, you can set the regular text margins to the width of the disk and do your typing, and place a 'hole' in the center with a circle autoshape and have minimal margins between text and the autoshape, but that can be a lot of effort
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Hello Bob.
Here are some examples of text on a CD/DVD.
The following I can do:
http://www.streetcookie.com/Image2.jpg
but it is more complicated to wrap text to
one side of a CD/DVD and the following is NOT
an example because the text on the right hand
side should be wrapped to the edge of the
CD/DVD:
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/images/11/r_WestWindCD.jpg
I do not want text to flow around the
circumference, but rather a set of overflow
text boxes, each wrapped to the CD/DVD
circumference so as to fill the area of the
disk as much as possible. That is the reader
has only to hold the disk upright to read the
area.
Here's another example of what I want, but
with a far better text wrapping to the edges
of the CD/DVD:
http://www.ridgewaypress.co.uk/images/cd_fruit.gif
I have tried the drawing of an "autoshape" in
Word2003, (insert/picture/autoshape) namely
the "do-nut" shape that gives an area like
the surface of a CD/DVD, but I cannot get any
curve-wrapped HORIZONTAL text into it. If I
could this is what I need.
Do you know of any software to do this.
Frank>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
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