It's easily done in Adobe Illustrator. Here's a link to a video on how to do it in Microsoft Word and PhotoShop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7uGxW6NFc

 

Even MS Word has a text editor for very basic prints.

 

This can be done with two names and a piece of string.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyvrWNHdANA
This video will show you how to make an ellipse, just use half of it.

Otto

 

Yes "word art" in MS Word is probably the simplest way to do this, though it's not quite as easy in the newer versions as it used to be I think. If you want free tools, then LibreOffice Writer, the open-source equivalent of MS Word, has a similar tool called Font Work. To use that you have to display the Font Work tool bar via the View/Toolbars menu item.

For more flexibility, most vector drawing packages will have a function to fit text to a path, which could be any curve or shape. Adobe Illustrator as mentioned by Oliver is the most popular commercial application of this type. CorelDraw is one that I use. The best free equivalent would be probably be Inkscape.

 

Yes "word art" in MS Word is probably the simplest way to do this....

Andy,

That would be my suggestion. Most everyone has access to Word or OpenOffice

 

I am vaguely familiar with Inkscape, I can do the basics but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Hoping to learn how.

 

Select a text object and a curve or shape (shift+click to select multiple objects at once) and choose "Put on Path" from the Text menu.

 

There are many YouTube tutorials for Inkscape. I find them the most useful, as they can be paused and tried, then resumed if successful. If it doesn't work, I go back and re-watch and retry. I find I learn best by watching rather than reading. Maybe that's just me.

 

No. It isn't just you. I am left-handed, so I think in pictures.

The easiest way to explain how a left-handed person processes data is to show this simple example:

OO + OO = OOOO

2 + 2 = 4

For a left-handed person who is right-brain oriented, the TOP equation will be understood much faster than the bottom one.

I CAN read. The Catholic nuns beat that into me (Thank God!), but I do not LIKE to read. I cannot take in the information fast enough. I much prefer a video and an audio input source to written text or printed diagrams. I can read a manual for an hour and still not understand what needs to be done, but show me a ten-minute you Tube video, and I can do brain surgery! :grin:

 

WordArt in Micro$oft Word.

 

Curved Text in Inkscape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfc_UcKEKfY

 

rmighty1, this video did it for me. I now can put my text in a ARC. I love Inkscape and figured it could be done just did not know how till I watched this video. I looked at 2 other videos, but either they went too fast or I could not understand them. But thanks to you I now have it down, if I don't forget how. I did save the video. :dance3:

 

I haven't used it for years since I went to Mac, but Microsoft Powerpoint used to wrap text in all kinds of directions.

 

Word Art MS Word