Adding Text

Adding Text

Adding Text

Canvas X Draw has a full range of text and typography features that let you integrate text with illustrations and images. You can enter, format, edit, and arrange text in Canvas X Draw. To help you edit and proof text, Canvas X Draw provides spell-checking and text-searching tools.

Text Tools

The Text tool palette contains the tools you use to create text objects and edit text.

Text: Use the Text tool to create text objects and edit text.

Text Object: Use the Text Object tool to draw fixed text objects for page layouts.

Text Link: Use the Text Link tool to link text objects to create text flows.

Text Unlink: Use the Text Unlink tool to break text object links.

Link Info: Use the Link Info tool to check text flows in a document. The tool displays arrows showing the flow of text among linked text objects.

Text Path: Use the Path Text tool to type text along a vector path.

Text Form Field: Use the Text Form Field tool to create form text boxes.

Text Section: Use the Text Section tool to create sections and columns in the text.

Text Format Brush: Use the Text Format Brush tool to copy a text format and apply it to other text.

Vertical Text: Use the Vertical Text tool to create text in vertical columns that flow from top to bottom and right to left.

Vertical Text Object: Use the Vertical Text Object tool to draw empty blocks for vertical text.

Table: Use the Table tool to quickly create tables. Use the Text tool to type in each cell individually.

Typing Text

The simplest way to add text to a document is to use the Text tool.

To Type Text with the Text Tool:

  1. Select the Text tool from the Toolbox. 
  2. Do one of the following to set the location and type the text:
    • To enter one line of text: Click in the document. An insertion point appears where you click. Begin typing and the right margin extends to fit the line of text that you type.
    • To define a text column: Drag diagonally to create a rectangular text object. The object’s width matters, but not its length. Canvas X Draw contracts or expands the length to accommodate the text you type. An insertion point appears at the top of the object. Begin typing, and when you reach the right margin, Canvas X Draw wraps the text to the next line.
  3. Press Esc to exit Text Editing mode when you finish typing. The text object remains selected.

    4. You can identify whether you are in Text Edit mode by the Status bar.

  4. Press Esc to deselect the text object or select another object. You can also click outside the object.

Formatting Text

Canvas X Draw provides two ways to format text: the Properties bar and the Text menu. Using the Properties bar or the Text menu, you can quickly apply formatting to particular characters or an entire paragraph.

To Apply Formatting from the Properties Bar:

  1. Select the Text tool from the Toolbox.
  2. Select the text you want to format.
  3. In the Properties bar, select one or more text format options.

Properties Bar Text Format Options

Font

Select a font from the drop-down menu. The font applies to selected text objects, highlighted text, or the next text you type.

Text styles

Click the styles buttons to assign standard text styles.

Size

Select a size from the drop-down menu. The size applies to selected text objects, highlighted text, or the next text you type. To increase the font size, you can also click the +A. To decrease the font size, you can click -A.

Tab

Select left, right, center, decimal, or comma from the menu and then click in the ruler to set the tab.

Horizontal alignment

Select left, center, right, or justify.

Text attributes

Use the pop-up palettes to apply a text fill ink, text pen ink, background ink, and text frame ink. For the text stroke and frame stroke, you can also assign a pen width.

Leading

Select an option from the drop-down menu, or choose Exactly and enter a value in the field and press Enter.

Kerning

Select an option from the menu or enter a value in the field and press Enter.

Scaling

Specify percentages (horizontal & vertical) by which you want to scale the current type size.

Space

Insert spacing before or after a paragraph by entering values in the fields.

Vertical alignment

Select the top, bottom, center, or justify button.

Insert

Select a special character from the drop-down menu.

To Apply Formatting from the Text Menu:

  1. Select the Text tool from the Toolbox.
  2. Select the text you want to format.
  3. Choose Text | Font (or any of the other formatting options).
  4. Choose one of the options from the sub-menus.

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