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Text on a path in Fabric
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| <!doctype html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Text on a path, using Fabric!</title> | |
| <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet"> | |
| <script src="https://unpkg.com/fabric@4.3.0/dist/fabric.js"></script> | |
| <script src="text-on-a-path.js"></script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <canvas ref="canvas" id="canvas" class="canvas"></canvas> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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| .canvas { | |
| border: 1px solid red; | |
| } |
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| const parameters = { | |
| width: 800, | |
| height: 200 | |
| } | |
| let reference = document.getElementById('canvas') | |
| let canvas = new fabric.Canvas(reference, { | |
| selection: false, | |
| preserveObjectStacking: true | |
| }) | |
| canvas.setWidth(parameters.width) | |
| canvas.setHeight(parameters.height) | |
| let pathForText = new fabric.Path(`M 0 0 Q 390 200 780 0`, { | |
| left: 10, | |
| top: 50, | |
| fill: '', | |
| stroke: 'red', | |
| strokeWidth: 1 | |
| }) | |
| canvas.add(pathForText) | |
| let text = new fabric.Text('Here is some text on a path, and I hope you find it useful!', { | |
| fill: 'red', | |
| fontFamily: 'Verdana', | |
| fontSize: 26, | |
| left: pathForText.left, | |
| path: pathForText, | |
| textAlign: 'center', // While this doesn't work with text on a path, `text-anchor="middle" startOffset="50%"` would accomplish the same in SVG. | |
| top: pathForText.top, | |
| width: parameters.width | |
| }) | |
| canvas.add(text) |
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In case anyone else is struggling to place text on a path, as I was.