Instruction Manual

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Size: Drag this slider to set the point size of the text. The slider is constrained to a maximum
of 288 points. To create larger text, click the numerical value and drag to the right or type a
new number.
Drag up or right to increase
value beyond default maximum,
or click and type a number.
Note: You can also scale text in the Canvas using onscreen controls, but doing so scales text as
an object independently of type point size via the Size slider.
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Alignment: Click a button to set the alignment and justication of text to Left, Center, Right,
Left Justied, Center Justied, Right Justied, or Full Justied. Paragraphs of a text object can
be aligned by selecting the text and choosing an alignment option. Vertical Alignment can be
applied in addition to horizontal alignment choices.
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Vertical Alignment: Click a button to set the vertical alignment of text to Top Aligned, Middle
Aligned, or Bottom Aligned. The paragraphs of a text object can be aligned by selecting text
and choosing an alignment option.
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Line Spacing: Drag this slider to set the distance between each line of text (leading) in point-
size increments. Dragging to the right (above 0) increases the line spacing. Dragging to the left
(below 0) creates negative line spacing.
Tip: To modify the spacing for individual lines of text when hard returns are present, select
text with the Text tool, then adjust the Line Spacing slider. Spacing is modied on the line that
includes the selected text.
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Tracking: Drag this slider to set the spacing between text characters. Tracking applies a uniform
value between each character.
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Kerning: Drag this slider to adjust spacing between text characters.
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Baseline: Drag this slider to adjust the baseline of text characters. The baseline is an invisible
horizontal line dening the bottom alignment of characters.
Advanced Formatting parameters
The Advanced Formatting controls are used less often than Basic Formatting controls. They aect
additional aspects of selected text.
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Scale: Drag this slider to scale text characters proportionally. To scale in only X or Y space, click
the disclosure triangle to set separate X and Y scale values. In the following image, the text X
Scale is set to 50%, and the Y Scale is set to 100%.
Disclosure triangle
67% resize factor