User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
2. Click where you want to start typing on the path. An insertion point appears.
3. Begin typing. The text aligns to the location where you placed the insertion point and follows
the path of the object.
Working with bound text
Once you bind text, you can change its starting position, alignment, baseline position, and flow
direction. In addition, you can edit the shape and location of the vector object to which text is bound,
and Canvas will fit the text to the new path.
You can also edit bound text by selecting the Path Text tool and clicking the text object, or by double-
clicking a bound text object with a Selection tool. However, text editing might be difficult and slow
while the text is bound to an object; you might want to remove the text bind, make changes, and re-
bind the text.
Bound text and its binding object move together, just like grouped objects. However, unlike grouped
objects, you can select and change attributes (such as stroke and ink) individually for the text and
the object.
To position and align bound text:
Canvas has three Bind Position handles that you can drag to place text anywhere on, above, or below
an object. The handles appear when you select a bound text object.
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