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Entering Text
The text you type may be as short as one letter or word or as long as several paragraphs. If the text is long
or exists in a word processor, you can load the text file into the current layer.
You enter and edit characters much like in a word processor. You type characters using the keyboard and
many known text editing conventions, such as Shift+arrow keys to select text lines. You can also click
once to insert the cursor and select the adjacent character, double-click to select the whole word, and
triple-click to select the entire line. Quadruple-click to select all characters on the layer and use the middle
mouse button to paste selected text.
Use either the workstation or on-screen keyboard to enter characters in a layer. You can also paste the current
text selection (from a shell or any other application) into any keyboard input field by pressing the middle
mouse button or by using the pen button.
You can also input Asian characters using their corresponding ASCII codes with the numeric keypad.
To enter text in a layer:
1 From the Text Mode box, select Edit.
TIP Use Edit mode to type text strings, select text, edit text in layers, and modify text attributes. Press Esc
to switch between Edit and Move modes. The message bar displays the current mode.
2 In the image window, create a new layer by doing one of the following:
■ Click New Layer.
■ Press Alt+N.
■ Click directly in the image window (if this is the first layer you are creating).
3 To begin a new paragraph within the layer, press Enter.
Notice that each paragraph has its own coloured boundary and a paragraph tag that is a coloured
rectangle in the upper-left corner of the paragraph. In Edit mode, a selected paragraph's boundary is
white.
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