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Collection: Use this pop-up menu to filter the font categories available in the Font pop-up
menu. When set to All Fonts, every font installed on your Mac OS X system appears in
the Font pop-up menu.
Font: Use this pop-up menu to choose the font for the text.
Typeface: Use this unlabeled pop-up menu to the right of the Font pop-up menu to set
a type style, such as Regular, Bold, Condensed, and so on. The available typefaces are
specific to the font family selected in the Font pop-up menu.
Size: Use this slider to set the point size of the text. Drag the Size slider left or right to
change the size. 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 the text in the Canvas using onscreen controls, but doing so
scales text as an object and is independent of setting type point size via the Size slider.
Alignment: Use these buttons to set the alignment and justification of text. The alignment
choices are Left, Center, Right, Left Justified, Center Justified, Right Justified, and Full
Justified. 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.
Vertical Alignment: Use these buttons to set the vertical alignment of text. The choices
are Top Aligned, Middle Aligned, and Bottom Aligned. The paragraphs of a text object
can be aligned by selecting the text and choosing an alignment option.
Line Spacing: Use 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 the text with the Text tool, then adjust the Line Spacing slider. Spacing is modified
on the line that includes the selected text.
Tracking: Use this slider to set the spacing between text characters. Tracking applies a
uniform value between each character.
Kerning: Use this slider to adjust spacing between text characters.
Baseline: Use this slider to adjust the baseline of text characters. The baseline is an invisible
horizontal line defining the bottom alignment of characters.
831Chapter 16 Creating and Editing Text