: Design wordcloud to fit custom shape with common software? I want to design a cover page of a presentation with all the keywords arranged in such a way that they form a number (e.g. 7). Here

@Hamaas979

I was looking for a similar function and came across a decent YouTube video that shows how to do this in Illustrator. good luck!

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@Lengel450

Do it by hand. As far as I know, there is no function beyond Taxedo (named in the question you referenced, and it's where your third example comes from) that will fully automatically create word-clouds in these complicated forms.

There is a place to start doing this manually, especially on the '7' example you give, and that's with InDesign's Text Wrap functionality. You can give any InDesign object a Text Wrap by selecting it and choosing settings in the Text Wrap panel (Window > Text Wrap or Alt+Control/Option+W).



I'd advise to go for the third option: 'wrap around object shape'. This will create a border around your shape where text will not flow. If you then place the object over a field full of text, it will repel all the text. You will have to manually readjust and replace the text for good legibility and flow, however.

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