Operation Manual

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• Maintain fonts and formatting
• Maintain formatting only
• Discard fonts and formatting
If you want to apply CMYK black to the imported black text, enable the Force CMYK black check box. This check box is available when
you choose an option that maintains text formatting.
If you choose to maintain fonts, but the text that you import requires a font that is not installed on your computer, the PANOSE font
matching system substitutes the font for you. For more information, see “Substituting fonts” on page 431.
You can also set hyphenation options for imported text. For more information about hyphenation options, see “To create a custom
definition for optional hyphenation” on page 421.
If you want to use the same formatting options whenever you import or paste text, enable the Don’t show this warning again
check box. To reactivate the warning, click Tools Options, click Warnings in the Workspace list of categories, and enable the
Pasting and importing text check box.
Adding artistic text
Artistic text is useful for adding single words or short lines of text, such as headlines, to a document. You can then apply a wide range of
effects to the artistic text, such as drop shadows or a contour.
Artistic text appears in a bounding box in the document window
You can add artistic text along an open or closed path or fit existing artistic to a path. For more information, see “Fitting text to a path” on
page 391.
In addition, you can assign hyperlinks to text. For more information, see “To assign a hyperlink to text” on page 259.
To add artistic text
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Using the Text tool , click anywhere on the drawing page, and type.
You can convert artistic text to paragraph text by selecting the artistic text using the Pick tool and then clicking Text Convert to
paragraph text.
Adding paragraph text
You add paragraph text in a document by using text frames. Paragraph text, also known as “block text,” is generally reserved for larger
bodies of text that have greater formatting requirements. For example, you can use paragraph text when creating brochures, newsletters,
catalogues, or other text-intensive documents.
You can insert a text frame directly in the drawing window. You can also place text inside a graphic object, which increases the number of
different shapes that you can use as text frames. You can create a text frame from a closed object and then type text inside the frame. You
can separate the frame from the object at any time, so that you can modify them independently. You can convert a text frame back to an
object.