Illustrator Text Paths

Just to clarify...is this project in a non-English language?  I don't quite understand what you are trying to do otherwise...you want the text to read from right to left?

The only way I can think of is to type in what you want backwards...   i.e.  sdrawkcab

By default type will be entered left to right  and if you flip the ellipse then it will be a mirror image.

See if this gives you the effect you need.

Cheers,
Andrew

It's very easy. Type the text along your path. Now go to Object>Transform>Reflect. Hit the vertical button, and OK. That flopped your ellipse over and the text is written counterclockwise.

If you set your paragraph setting to "flush right"  instead of the default "flush left" your type will go counter clockwise from wherever you click on the circle.

>> This project is in English.
>> Typing it backwards, and flipping the ellipse vertically or horrizontally doesnt achieve the effect I want. The letters themselves are also flipped. I still want the letters to read noramally.
>>The 'flush right'/'flush left' theory only makes the text being entered move along counterclockwise, not actually READ counterclockwise.

I don't want the text to be upside down but to curve round the ellipse, instead of running round the ellipse , the words, "Hello World", for example, would normally run around CLOCKWISE from 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock, with the  'H' at 9 and the 'd' at 3. I would like this to be the opposite, but not upside down, that it I want the 'H' to remain at 9 and the 'd' to again be at the '3' position but this time run COUNTERCLOCKWISE and still have the letters the r ight way up.

As a further example it should look something similar to  the following procedure I did in Photoshop (this not being accurate enough for me):

Step 1: Type some text
Step 2: Warp Text >  Style: Arc
Step 3: Make sure Horizontal is selected
Step 4: Move  Bend to -75%

Thanks for all your suggestions so far.

That's exactly what youll get with the any of the methods described above.

Not exactly, Weed.  I think the desired effect here is to have the text curve toward the bottom of the circle, "U" shaped so to speak.  After quite a bit of tinkering, I am unable to achieve this in AI CS.  It's quite easy in CorelDraw if you have that available, you could set it there and import it into AI.

Sorry I could not be of more help :(

Using Illustrator you can have the text anywhere you want it going in any direction. The above methods will get you there.

I am unable to achieve what you are looking for using any of the methods above in Illustrator CS and still achieve non-mirrored text, but I did find a "Type on a path options" applet under type -> type on a path. Using that I was able to achieve the effect...although I am not sure if that applet exists in version 9 or not.

Andrew posted while I was posting...his method works like a charm :)

It's the same method. Just moving the text from one side to another.

I think I get it now. If you want the type to run around the bottom of the ellipse going reading left to right. Set of the type as you would normally around the top or bottom of the ellipse and with the arrow tool grab the "I" beam icon and pull it to the inside of the ellipse. The type now runs around the inside of the ellipse and yoiu can now move it to the bottom of the ellipse. If you want to align it to type moving around the top of the ellipse to make a clockwise top read and bottom counterclockwise read - use the base alignment tool.

now you got it....
It's not exactly intuitive but once you get it you can really manipulate how your text looks on the path
Glad to help
Andrew

Thanks for all your advice. Just so nobody tries the first few suggested methods, as far as I can tell the method of pulling the cursor 'inside out' is the one method that gets the specific desired effect.

Cheers again.