Fireworks guru Aaron Beall caught wind of my Arched Text Inkscape Tutorial a few days back, pointing out that the task of arching the bottom of the text can be done in Adobe® Fireworks® (in fact, it’s even easier with Fireworks’ Distort tool). He even provided a quick walkthrough for the benefit of other Fireworks users over at FireworksGuru Forum.
Apparently, he wasn’t satisfied with just a simple tute, and in the name of rapid prototyping, he came up with a Fireworks command that does all the magic for you. Aside from the obvious convenience bonus, this command uses mathematical interpolation (as opposed to the human approximation of the tutorial versions) to create a more precise arch. Great job!
Go check it out: Arc_Bottom Fireworks Command; installation and usage instructions are included there. The command dialog is a bit primitive (understandable for something built in less than 30 minutes), but Aaron is planning on creating an MXP (which I will take to mean “user-friendlier dialog”) later on.
Thank God for extensibility. And math.
A Fireworks Command is impressive and a bit complex