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Paragraphs and 3D Space
Text can be modified in 3D space. As a camera rotates, the onscreen text entry controls
rotate with the text. Although the controls (the ruler, text entry field, and scroll control)
appear to change in scale, this is only a perspective shift caused by the movement of
the camera.
Adding Text with the Text Editor
After you add a blank text object to your project (by selecting the Text tool and clicking
in the Canvas), you can enter and edit text in the Text editor rather than the Canvas. The
Text editor is useful when working with large amounts of text.
To enter text in the Text editor
1 Click the Text tool (or press T), then click or drag in the Canvas to create a blank text
object.
If you click in the Canvas, you activate the default layout method (Type), which requires
that you insert manual line breaks (by pressing Return) to make text wrap to a new
line.
If you drag in the Canvas, you activate the Paragraph layout method, which wraps text
into a column.
2 In the Text Inspector, click Format to open the Format pane.
815Chapter 16 Creating and Editing Text