Here's my current document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\path [decorate, decoration={text along path, text={ |\fontsize{60pt}{4em}\selectfont| Annual Picnic ||}}] (0,0) .. controls (8,2) .. (16,0);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}
QUESTIONS
(1) How can I get this to work with a large font that will essentially cover the entire top of the page?
(2) What are some other ways of arranging text along part of a circle at the top of the page?
\font\f=cmr17 at60pt
and you can say\text={ |\f| Annual Picnic ||}
and the problem vanishes.\documentclass
. The usage\font\f
is more natural and without problems and without packages to fix these problems :)article
before you can use\section
.\f
works of course in this simple case as there are no font changes and no line breaking within its scope, but it doesn't really work and isn't good advice in a latex context (as you know)