Text inside circle in Illustrator 9

[dezyner]

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I've read several tutorials and forum answers regarding getting type to flip to the inside, bottom of a circle path (readable), and all of them refer to switching to the black selection tool and dragging either the text "I-beam" or some other text "handle" into the center of the circle. In my version of Illustrator 9, when I switch from typing the text on the circle path to the selection tool, the text "I-beam" disappears. Do I have some setting wrong in the program that makes the "I-beam" disappear? And actually, when I refer to the text "I-beam," on my screen it is actually just a blinking cursor just like the one leading what I'm typing in this post, not like the "I" shown in the tutorial's illustrations. There must be an easy solution, I just can't seem to find it. Help, please.

 

[apepp]

...try referring to this movie i created for another users post:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1533563&page=5

andrew

 

[apepp]

...when you switch to the select tool (black arrow) you should see a very thin guide line, when you hover over it your your cursor changes to a " T " icon...

...then you drag towards the inside of the circle and the text will flip...

...the longer way around is to (with the text path selected) choose:

type > type on path > type on path options > turn flip ON...



andrew

 

[dezyner]

Thanks for your reply to my post. While it didn't answer my problem directly, (Illustrator 9 doesn't have the option you suggested in your second post) it started me thinking about why the "I" did not show up on my computer and it did on yours and others. It was as simple as clicking on "Show Selection" under "objests" while the curved type and circle path were selected. Now with the black selection tool active the "I-beam" shows up. I grabbed it with the selection tool and pulled it to the center of the circle and it flipped right over.

Thanks again for your quick response.