Trying to Create a Diploma for my niece...by tomorrow evening

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ehbowen

All right. My sister's eight kids have all been home-schooled. It's legitimate schooling; they're part of a co-op where they learn Latin, rhetoric, history from ancient through modern, and so on. The oldest ones have graduated college by now.

Number seven, my next-to-youngest niece, has gone as far with home schooling as she can. My sister and BIL want to present her with a Diploma. I've used Scribus before to publish novels, but this is the first time I've tried to use it for anything decorative.

I first tried purchasing an Etsy template on line (trying to attach), but AFTER purchasing it I found out that it required a Canva account to be usable. I don't have, or want, a Canva account. I first tried a similar design in Affinity Designer, but try as I might I couldn't create a symmetrical arc for a text path. I could create half an arc, and mirror it, and join the two arcs together...but whenever I tried to use it as a text path the text would go halfway, then flip over and follow that half of the arc upside down. Sigh.

Anyhow, whether Scribus or Affinity, I've GOT to get this put together by tomorrow evening. (Did I mention I have to work a full day boiling water tomorrow, too?) Asking any kind souls here for help with proper formatting and making it look pretty. I'll put in names, text, Bible verse and such...I just need layout help. Thanks.



sersha

Here is a link to the nice explanation of TextOnThePath.
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_put_Text_on_a_Path
I also enclose a supersimple .sla file demonstrating that. Best regards, S.