Text manipulation

Is there any software available which would allow me to lay out text in a circle?

Yes, try !FontFX – my copy is marked © Data Store 1990-1992 but I can’t remember from where I obtained it so long ago, probably ADPL. A quick google search shows that it is available from here

Alternatively use MakeDraw which can show text at any angle, but you would have to do the calculations yourself.

Yes, try !TextFffX it’s freeware. technically !FontFX is commercial, and not sure you can get it from anywhere now.

I think it was made freeware in 2006, and available from a4com … now dead.
But it still seems available from http://www.act.pibox.de/d/riscos/down.htm

Do you mean to align text around a circle, or to lay out text in a circular frame? For aligning text !TextEffX is a nice tool indeed (or !ArtWorks if you have it), for the latter you will definitively need !OvationPro.

I think it was made freeware in 2006, and available from a4com … now dead.

It’s unclear what “it” refers to here, but for completeness, TextEffx is freeware and was formerly Cerilica Insignia. FontFX was a different application in its own right.

Yes, try !TextFffX it’s freeware.

Thanks for all who have suggested this. It did the job sufficiently well in the very limited time I had.

I needed to layout text in a circle, instead of the usual straight line. It worked well for Trimity.Medium. However when I selected any other font, the letters overlapped, and I couldn’t see a way to alter the spacing (kerning?). Ideally I wanted a sans-serif font, with loose spacing. (Actually it might have worked with spaces between every pair of letters…)