Any way to make a text field a custom shape?

[Redbeard]

I am doing a layout for CD labels. Is there any way to make a text field a shape other than rectangular; like in MS Word?

I want the text to wrap around the CD because a rectangular shape really limits the usable space on a round disk.

John

[falkaholic]

No sir, you cant do that.

You could try pasting a screenshoot from work into a container field if you want to catalog you labels.

[Redbeard]

How about this then; Is there a way to get text to wrap from one field to the next, and so on. like this;

cdtext1cdtext1cdtext1cdtext1cdtext1cdtext1cdtext1

cdtext2cdtext2cdtext2cdtext2cdtext2cdtext2

cdtext3cdtext3cdtext3cdtext3cdtext3

cdtext4cdtext4cdtext4cdtext4

cdtext5cdtext5cdtext5

cdtext6cdtext

cdtext7

where cdtext1, etc are fields and when cdtext1 fills up, text wraps over to cdtext2, and when that fills, wraps to cdtext3 and so on. Then I can manouver the text fields to look like any shape I want.

[kennedy]

If you choose a fixed width font, then that is certainly possible. Use position to find the last whitespace that is before the end of that line. Break the input text into separate lines based on that. (One or two calc fields for each line would do the trick.)

Without a fixed width font, you'd either have to guestimate how many characters fit, OR you'd have to create a table with the size of each character and write some hideous calculations.

[Redbeard]

How do I figure out which fonts are fixed width? (Mac OSX 10.2)

[Vaughan]

Look at them -- if they look like they're typewritten (the letter "i" takes up as much space as the letter "m") then it's a monospaced font.

[BobWeaver]

General rule of thumb: The ugliest fonts are the monospaced ones.

On mac, Monaco and Courier are the common ones.

[falkaholic]

Opps, I was thinking warping, not wrapping. Thats whole another ball game.