User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
3. Then click OK.
You can also select the tab in the ruler and drag it off the ruler either up, down, left, or right.
Using the Type palette
To open the Type palette:
1. Choose Text | Type.
2. Adjust the settings for Character, Hyphens, Indents, Paragraph, Spacing, and Styles.
3. Click Apply
When you adjust settings in the Type palette, the new settings don’t take effect until you
click Apply. Be sure that you don’t click outside the palette before applying the settings, or
they will be lost.
For information about creating and applying type styles, see "Working with type styles" on page 605.
Horizontal and vertical text scaling
Canvas 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 Alt and drag a selection handle. Depending on the direction of the
drag, Canvas scales text horizontally or vertically.
To scale characters using the Type palette:
1. Specify the vertical and horizontal scale of characters by entering percentages in the Scale
boxes. Canvas applies these percentages to the point size displayed in the Size box.
To scale proportionately, enter the same percentage in both boxes.
2. Click Apply.
Canvas 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.
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