User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
To convert Form Text objects to Normal text:
Right-click the Form Text box, and select Convert to Normal Text.
Formatting text
You can control all aspects of text formatting in Canvas. This section explains how to specify font,
font styles, type size, character position and scaling, kerning, letter and word spacing, paragraph
alignment and spacing, and hyphenation. This section also explains how to select text for formatting
and how to apply format settings.
You can also save format settings as named character and paragraph styles so you can use them
again (see "Working with type styles" on page 605).
Selecting text and objects
The following section is a review of some basic selection techniques used to format text.
To select and deselect text objects:
Select text objects the same way you select other objects in Canvas.
To select a single object: Use a Selection tool to click the text object or drag a
selection rectangle around the object.
To select multiple objects: Shift-click text objects with a Selection tool. You can also
drag a selection rectangle around all the objects you want to select.
To deselect one object: Press Shift and click the object. Other objects remain
selected.
To deselect all objects: Press Esc or click an area of the screen where there are no
objects.
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