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Changing Text Softness
Use the Blur parameter in the Style pane of the Text Inspector to adjust the softness of
text.
To adjust the softness in the Inspector
1 Select the text.
2 In the Text Inspector, Click Style to open the Style pane.
3 In the Face controls, drag the Blur slider, or enter a blur amount in the value slider.
The text softness is updated as you drag the slider.
Text Texture-Related Tasks
Use the Texture controls in the Style pane to apply and edit texture effects.
Using the Texture Image Well
Use the Texture image well to apply, replace, and remove textures.
To apply a texture to text
1 Select the text.
2 In the Inspector, open the Style pane of the Text Inspector.
3 Choose Texture from the “Fill with” pop-up menu.
The Color (or Gradient) controls are replaced with the Texture controls.
“Fill with” pop-up menu
is set to Texture.
Image well
By default, no texture is applied to the text.
4 In the Layers list or Media list, drag the image to use for the texture to the Image well.
The image appears in the well and is applied to the text. When text is filled with an image,
the texture is applied to each text character. To learn how to make the texture continuous
through all text characters, see Applying a Continuous Texture to a Text Object.
852 Chapter 16 Creating and Editing Text