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• Auto-Shrink: Use this pop-up menu, available when Layout Method is set to Paragraph,
Scroll, or Crawl to change the vertical or horizontal scale of selected letters to ensure
the text fits within the margins of the text object. Choose one of the following options:
• Off: No scaling occurs. Text exceeding the width or height of the text object extends
beyond the visible edges of the screen for scrolling or crawling text, or wraps to the
next line for paragraph text.
• Left And Right: Scaling occurs at the left and right margins of the text object. This
setting is primarily used with scrolling text, to ensure that no characters are cut off.
However, it can be applied to other text objects.
• Top And Bottom: Scaling occurs at the top and bottom margins of the text object.
This setting is primarily used for crawling text, to ensure that no characters are cut
off. However, it can be applied to other text objects.
• To All Margins: Scaling occurs at the left, right, top, and bottom margins of the text
object.
• Crop At Margins: Select this checkbox to crop text that extends past the margins of the
text object. This control is disabled when Auto-Shrink is enabled.
Note: For Crop At Margins to be active, Layout Method must be set to Paragraph, and
the text object must be flattened. For more information about flattening text, see
Adding Behaviors and Filters to Text.
Text Rendering: This group of controls in the Layout pane affects how text objects are
displayed in 3D layers.
• Flatten: Select this checkbox to force text characters to remain in a 2D plane. In 3D
groups, text characters on a path may be influenced by behaviors in ways that interfere
with linear alignment. For instance, a simulation behavior might pull nearby text
characters out of their plane. When Flatten is selected, the text can still interact with
other objects in 3D space, but only as a flattened image, like a card.
Unflattened text on a 3D path can weave
through other elements in a project.
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