Hello Robert, I have often played with the mesh warp tool, but was never really concerned about 'precise' angles. I just grabbed the text after using the warp tool and rotated to 'roughly' the angle I wanted. So, your method using a straight line and then lining-up might be the only way for precise angles? But, looking at all the warp shapes, there are not many that might fit your bill, save the top one I have highlighted and its neighbour to the right that might need precise angles - as most of the others are intricate shapes, as the example I highlighted below them. Although having said that, any of the shapes with a straight line component in its shape would be suitable for angle precision.

In any event I did have a play in X9 with the top highlighted warp shape and when you click the shape in rotates at pretty much 4.5 dgrees up to the right - I then produced the straight line (your method) rotated the line to 8 degrees (which is the angle I wanted) and then set the warped text to match at 8 degrees. I can't see any other way to get precise angles, other than your method.

I’ve just checked Robert’s profile. His last visit was more than a year ago now, a little over three weeks after he posted.

That does sound as though it should achieve what he described.

Alfred,

Are you able to contact him by email, and apologise for his being inadvertently ignored?

Oops! Thanks for that, Sandy. I don’t know how I managed to convince myself that it was January of last year rather than this year.

I remember now that Robert emailed me quite recently to request access, at which point I discovered that I had already added him to the membership list in February 2022.

Couldn’t you slope the text and rotate the object? Or did I miss something (as somebody famous once said)?

Rotating the Sloped text gives a completely different result to using the Mesh Warp Tool - text is'sloped' but not 'straight' as when using the Mesh Warp Tool.

I don't know if you remember Alfred, but in the "OLD" Serif Forum I always did graphics to explain my posts? Love your forum and slowly settling in...

Re the multitude of unanswered question, I find that the vast majority of these topics are 'statements of interest' and not 'questions' requiring an answer. Just the one or two are technical questions - one of which I have drawn your attention too in the General Discussions category: Frozen images in PPX9 **. Similarly, I have added a few jokes in the General Discussion category and once again no replies or answers are required. In any event I am sure an answer would be forthcoming if we could 'see' an example of the user's ** offending frozen images page?

Please accept my sincere apologies. I would like to thank those of you who reviewed my query and offered answers. I am late responding due to an emergency abdominal surgery I had to undergo. My apologies, I will make sure it doesn't happen too often in the future. Robert

Thanks, Alfred, for your welcoming. Very much appreciated and yes, I am now on the mend. Age certainly doesn't come easy.