I'm trying to create some text on a path that gets smaller as it goes down the path. Similar to the text that says "Steam &amp; Printer Job Label" in the picture below.  I've tried some of the effects and object -> envelope effect but I can't get it to work?  Is there a way to do this rather the creating an outline of the text and manually resizing each letter?  Thanks for the help.
I'm not too sure how to describe the effect that I'm going for or what it is even called.  Thus, I'm having some trouble finding any help through Google.    I want to accomplish something like this "SLOPED" text below, but have the bottoms of the letters follow the slope as well instead of being horizontal.    I have tried using the free transform tool, skewing, and using perspective, but I don't like the effect they are resulting in.  All of the tools that I just mentioned result in the appearance of the word being angled away from the viewer (perspective).  I want more of this style effect, whereas the letters are not skewed horizontally, but scaled evenly along a path that I lay out.  What is the name of this text effect?  Can anyone point me in the right direction to a tutorial or know how to accomplish this themselves?  I know that I could go through and do this letter by letter, but I was really hoping to find an easier method.  EDIT I have removed many elements of my design and quickly threw some sample text in it, but this should give you an idea of what I am trying to accomplish.  I want a mixture of the above and below effects.
Dropout: scaling the activation versus inverting the dropout When applying dropout in artificial neural networks, one needs to compensate for the fact that at training time a portion of the neurons were deactivated. To do so, there exist two common strategies:   scaling the activation at test time inverting the dropout during the training phase   The two strategies are summarized in the  below, taken from .  Which strategy is preferable, and why?    Scaling the activation at test time:    Inverting the dropout during the training phase: Navigation bar is too long on progressbar theme, can it wrap? My navigation bar at the top of each slide (that links to each section) has too many sections. I would like to keep the bar and keep each section but I would like to wrap it i.e. have it on two lines.  Is that possible?  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W: Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2001:388:30bc:cafe::beef). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (202.158.214.106), connection timed out W: Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan-updates/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2001:388:30bc:cafe::beef). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) W: Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan-backports/InRelease  Cannot initiate the connection to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2001:388:30bc:cafe::beef). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.  I'm really not sure why it would be doing this, other than maybe some first-use hiccups? 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