Automating tasks in Omega?

I've looked in the huge manual and don't think what I'm trying may be feasible, but can't hurt to ask.

The situation is: I'm running several orders for sports decals for school teams. (I'm using an illustration of a softball for this example).

What I have to do is put each team members name above the softball in arc by fitting text to path. Same at bottom of ball with team name or school.

Additionally, I'm placing their indiv. player numbers in center of ball.

Right now, I am doing each of these manually - one at a time, and it's beginning to feel like suckin' spit. What might be the most advanced way to ratchet these projects up? (For instance, in Macromedia Fireworks I can "script" a series of tasks from a History panel and apply them with a mouse click whenever I want to repeat the steps to duplicate a job).

What is the closest I can come in Omega to that possibility? (I might add that while I've been a Gerber user since 1982, I've never done jobs like these before - just in case somebody is gonna hit me with an obvious solution that was right under my nose all the time!). Also - I don't want to DO the art in Fireworks and import it to Omega because of fonts that were chosen. Like I said, I wanna know how I can get closest to it. Thanks.

 

Nope... and it's kinda TIME for that in software that costs over two grand. It's the first time I've explored for this capability, but ya can't set up a template either to plug changing info into and have it apply a few effects for ya.

I figured several people would point out the Duplicate command thinking I was referring to that... and I am - I just want it to duplicate and have effects set I can simply change the info in without having to absolutely start over on each dang one! Kinda time consuming if yer doin' several hundred sports decals with arched copy top and bottom. And as I said - because of fonts they chose, (gerber fonts), I can't do it in a program with those capabilities and import it to Gerber. Like I said - it's time, and is definitely a feature that will decide if I stay with Gerber after 25 years or hafta choose another.

 

Yes - it fits curve of ball. I'll explore what you're saying... might not work for this round, but I can try and design the next order to utilize this capability.

I got three school districts' athletic dept.'s orders avalanched on me because of one small decal I did for a friend's child. I overdesigned the daylights out of it for fun and ended up with this dilemna (but it's a nice problem to have!).

 

TONY (or others) Spoon Feed Me...

I've read the manual and can't seem to find the steps to do what you're saying here (yes... I AM dense when it comes to manuals - sorta like stopping to ask directions!).

Can ya give me a "Readers Digest condensed" version of how to do this? THANKS VERY MUCH in advance!