Text on path, finally! But...

[markaudacity]

...but you can't put text upright on the outside of a closed path? It looks like you can only put text on the inside with the path as a baseline, or the outside with the path at ascender height.
So close, and yet! Am I missing something about how to do this? I tried with both a circle and an arc, and there seems to be no way to get text on top of the arc.

[wmhazzard]

What do you mean by upright? Can you show an image of what you are looking for?

[wmhazzard]

What do you mean by upright? Can you show an image 

[HughesTooling]

Try this. Seems like embedding images is broken again!

[g-andresen]

Hello,
1. position below and on the line works as well as centering and length distribution
2. text on closed contour (e.g. circle) works, but not its positioning > 12  / 6 or 3 

günther

günther

[etfrench]

Use an offset of the curve equal to the ascender/decender height.