User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
To use the Vertical option for text objects:
Use the Vertical option in the Type palette to set up the Text tool for vertical text and to orient text
objects to contain vertical text.
When you set the Text tool to create vertical text, lines of text that you type are vertical, with
text flowing from top to bottom and lines running from right to left. This is the same as the
orientation of text within an existing text object when you apply the Vertical option.
1. Open the Type palette by double-clicking the Text tool or choosing Text | Type.
2. Do one of the following to set up the Text tool, or to change the orientation of existing text
objects:
To change the default operation of the Text tool: Make sure that no objects are
selected in the document.
To change existing text objects: Select the text objects.
3. Select the Vertical check box in the Type palette and then click Apply to apply the current
settings. Canvas applies the vertical option to the selected text objects or to the Text tool.
To change text orientation to horizontal in an object:
1. Open the Type palette.
2. Select a text object containing vertical text.
3. Deselect the Vertical check box and then click Apply.
To use vertical text in publication layouts:
1. Choose Layout | Column Guides and choose the number of columns you want to use.
2. Use the Vertical Text Object tool to click between column guides to create a text column sized
to fit the column guides.
The column extends from the point you click to the left margin of the page. If the column guides are
outside the printable area, the column text remains inside the printable area (see "Using Vertical Text
Object tool" on page 566).
Creating column layouts
A section is a rectangular area that arranges text in columns. A section is made of column guides,
which are non-printing lines that define the text columns and gutters (spaces between columns).
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