User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
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 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 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. Press Esc to deselect the text object or select another object. You can also click outside the
object.
Attributes of new text
When you type text, Canvas applies the current attributes and the current type format settings to the
characters you type. For more information about changing ink and stroke attributes, see "Text inks
and strokes" on page 631).
Type formatting: Canvas applies the current settings for the font, style, type size,
justification (alignment), leading, and kerning to the characters you type. These settings are
selected from the Text menu, the Properties bar, or with the controls in the Type palette (see
"Applying text formats" on page 580).
Fill inks: Canvas applies the current fill ink, if it’s a solid color fill ink, to the text characters.
If the current fill ink is a gradient, hatch, symbol, or texture, Canvas applies 100%
black to the text characters.
Pen inks: The pen ink for text you type is always 100% black, and is not visible until you
apply a pen stroke to the text.
Strokes: Canvas applies no stroke to text characters you type. This means that no outline
appears on the characters, and the pen ink applied to the text is not visible because the pen
ink appears only when an object or text has a visible stroke.
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