Horizontal and Vertical Text Scaling

Canvas X Draw provides independent control of horizontal and vertical scaling of text. Using this feature, you can stretch characters to create extended and condensed letterforms.

To Scale an Entire Text Object:

Select the text object, press Shift+ Command and drag a selection handle. Depending on the direction of the drag, Canvas X Draw scales text horizontally or vertically.

To Scale Characters Using the Properties Bar:

1. On the Properties bar, specify the vertical and horizontal scale of characters by entering percentages in the Scale boxes. Canvas X Draw applies these percentages to the point size displayed in the Size box.

   To scale proportionately, enter the same percentage in both boxes.

2. Press Enter.

Canvas X Draw doesn’t limit the percentage you can scale characters; however, extremely high and low settings can distort some fonts and make them unreadable. In addition, scaling requires significant amounts of memory for text display, which might cause performance problems for some systems.

You can also scale characters on the Character tab of the Type palette. Choose Text | Type...

To Remove Horizontal and Vertical Scales from Text Objects:

1. To normalize specific texts, select those text objects. To normalize all texts, do not make a selection.
2. Choose Text | Normalize Font Size. The horizontal and vertical scaling is reset to 100%, and the font size of the text objects are adjusted to the nearest equivalent font size.

This operation will ignore text objects with horizontal and vertical scales that do not match each other.