User`s guide

Chapter 8 Working with Text
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To delete a style:
1. Select the style’s thumbnail.
2. Click the Delete Style button.
The style’s thumbnail is deleted from the Style Palette.
Applying Styles
There are many styles you can add, depending on the type. There are text, color, natural,
extrusion, gradient, spline, brush, material, and bump map styles.
Applying Text Styles
You can apply text styles from the following windows:
• Style Palette: Applies text styles directly to text tracks in the timeline. You can update
styles for multiple tracks at once.
• Text window: Applies styles to individual characters. You can apply the styles in the Text
window.
• Composite window: Uses the Text tool for typing text directly over the image in the
Composite window.
When you apply styles to tracks in the timeline, style modifier check boxes in the Style
Palette window are respected. If you choose to apply a font to multiple tracks in the timeline,
any animation parameters created in the Controls window are unchanged.
To apply styles to text tracks:
1. In the Timeline window, select the appropriate Text track or Shift+select multiple tracks.
2. Choose Window > Show Style Palette or press Ctrl+7.
3. In the Text tab in the Style Palette, select the parameters to apply. The choices include:
Fonts, Size, Face, Fill, Edge, Shadow, and Transform.
4. To apply a style, do one of the following:
Delete Style button
Apply Style button