User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
Text with an inserted
picture
Some text formatting features do not apply to inserted pictures.
If you scale the surrounding text, an inserted picture does not distort or scale with the text.
Spread and Overprint commands do not affect inserted pictures.
Strokes or inks applied to the text don’t affect inserted pictures.
Inserted pictures might not be imported from the Clipboard by other applications.
Inserting a picture into text
The Insert Picture command is available when any object is on the Clipboard and the insertion point
is in a text object.
When the insertion point is in a text object and you choose the Insert Picture command, Canvas
inserts the contents of the Clipboard as a raster image into the text.
Since Canvas converts the Clipboard contents to a raster image when you use Insert Picture, you
cannot edit objects that have been inserted into text; e.g., if you insert a multigon object into text,
you can’t use editing handles to reshape or scale it. If you insert text characters using the Insert
Picture command, the inserted text characters are not editable.
To use the Insert Picture command:
1. Select the object or objects that you want to insert into text.
2. Choose Edit | Cut or Edit | Copy to place the selection on the Clipboard. If you selected
multiple objects, they become a single composite graphic when inserted into text.
3. Select the Text tool.
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