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In Illustrator if I take a hyphen and create outlines on it and rotate it 90° and create a pattern brush out of it... if I use that brush to outline an circle the sides of the hypens closer to the center are narrower than the outer sides oof the hypen. Is there a way to prevent Illustrator from stretching or warping when these are applied to circles?

I don't think there is a way with the pattern brush, but you might try the scatter brush and turn on "Rotate the brush to path." It will get you a little closer to what I think you what. You may have to play with the spacing and rotation to get it to play nice however.

Are you looking to create something similar to this?



J. Stuart J.

[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 09-17-2003).]

similar to that however rotate each hyphen 90° on its axis

The same method should work then, as you can control the rotation idependently while rotating with the scatter brush.

J. Stuart J.

In this case there is a work around to achieve the effect you want.

instead of making the hyphen brush, select a sans serif face such as arial black and type a load of capital i's, eg IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

next, grab the corner of the bounding box surrounding the "IIIII"s and stretch it to the size you want and also use the character pallet to alter the spacing between letters. Next scroll over the text and copy it.

now draw your path using the pen tool or in this case your circle using the ellipse tool. In the toolbox select the Path Type Tool, click on your circle and paste your text onto it.

This will give you what you are looking for without distorting the shapes of the letters. You may need to tweek the text size/spacing or even add/subtract letters to get an even fit.
If you wish, you can now convert the circular text to paths




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