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OpenType support for Asian text
You can apply advanced OpenType typography features to Asian text. OpenType features can be accessed from the Character area in the
Text properties (Text Text properties). The following table lists the OpenType features that you can use with Asian text provided the
features are included in the font.
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OpenType feature Description
Asian widths Changes the width by spacing or replacing the glyphs
The Centered CJK punctuation feature centers punctuation marks
horizontally and vertically.
Asian forms Replaces the selected characters with a different glyph form. Forms
cannot be combined.
Asian vertical metrics The Alternate vertical metrics feature centers shorter characters
vertically relative to full-height characters. This feature also applies
to full-width Latin glyphs.
The Alternate vertical half metrics feature centers characters
vertically relative to half-height characters.
Horizontal Kana alternates Substitutes the standard kana glyph with a horizontal kana glyph
Vertical Kana alternates Substitutes the standard kana glyph with a vertical kana glyph
Vertical alternates and rotation Substitutes characters with forms suitable for vertical text, often
rotating them at 90 degrees
Alternate annotation forms Applies an annotation form to the selected characters. This
OpenType feature applies to both Latin and Asian text.
Formatting multilingual text
Corel DESIGNER includes controls that let you format text in different languages. You can limit any font, style, and size changes to only Latin,
Asian, or Middle Eastern text by choosing the script type. For example, if you want to change the font size of Japanese text in a document
that includes both English and Japanese text, you can choose the Asian script type, and then change the font size. This applies the new
font size only to the Japanese text, the English text font size is unaffected. You can also enable right-to-left text flow when working with
bidirectional languages, such as Middle Eastern languages. In addition, you can mix latin text with Asian or Middle Eastern in one text object
and set the spacing between the two words.
To limit font property changes to multilingual text
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Using the Text tool , select the text.
If the Property manager docker is not open, click Window Property manager.
2
In the Property manager docker, click the Character button to display the character-related options.