Poster Designer Pro Working With Text In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to: · Work with artistic and frame text. · Create, edit, and format text. · Apply shadows, reflections, and other text effects. · Create shaped text (or text-on-a-path). · Edit user details information. · Wrap frame text around pictures.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Working With Text Poster Designer Pro offers frame text and artistic text. You can use the same methods to perform operations such as selecting, editing, and formatting both types of text. However, there are a few differences, as outlined in the following table. Frame text: Artistic text: · Lets you flow text between frames. · Lets you stretch or squash the text by dragging its container. · Allows you to wrap text around pictures and shapes.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text 3 In the center pane, select the Green Fingers template and then click Open. The template opens as a new poster in the workspace. To begin, we’ll show you how to select, edit, and format text. The methods described in the following sections are applicable to both artistic and frame text. To select and edit text: 1 Using the Pointer Tool, click to select the text object located in the upper-right corner of the poster.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To format text: 1 Triple-click anywhere on the line of text you’ve just edited to select the entire line. 2 At the top of the workspace, on the Text context toolbar: · Click to expand the Point Size drop-down list and set the point size to 72 pt. (You can also type a value directly into the box and press the Enter key.) · Remove the bold formatting from the text by clicking Bold. 3 With the text still selected, on the Swatches tab, click a white swatch.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To create artistic text: 1 On the Tools toolbar, on the Text flyout, click the Text Tool. 2 Click anywhere on your page to set a text insertion point. 3 On the Text context toolbar: · In the Font drop-down list, select Galeforce BTN. · In the Point Size drop-down list, select 48 pt. 4 In the lower-left corner of the Swatches tab, the five numbered swatches indicate the color scheme currently applied to this poster.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Now let’s make our poster title a little more interesting. In the following sections, we’ll apply a different font, a gradient fill, and a reflection effect (all of these procedures work equally with artistic and frame text). Finally, we’ll fit the text to a curved path (only applicable to artistic text). To change font: 1 Triple-click on the poster title, ‘Green Fingers,’ to select both words.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To edit a gradient fill: 1 Select the text object and then on the Tools toolbar, click the Fill Tool. The object’s fill path is displayed. 2 You can adjust the fill path: · To change the color spread, click and drag the fill path nodes. · To change the color of a fill path node, select it and then on the Swatches tab, click a color swatch. In our example, we applied the color scheme 5 swatch to the rightmost node. Next, we’ll fit our title text to a curved path.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text 3 Resize the text object by clicking and dragging the top and side edge resize handles. 4 Drag the text back into position on top of the white background area. 5 Stretch out the text path slightly by dragging the Start and End nodes. 6 (Optional) To adjust the slope of the path, click on a Start or End node and then drag the curve handle. When you’ve finished adjusting your text path, it should resemble the illustration below.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Let’s now apply some filter effects to our text. Poster Designer Pro includes a wide range of preset filter effects, which you can apply from the Styles tab with a single click . To apply filter effects: 1 Click on the ‘Green Fingers’ text object. 2 On the Styles tab, in the upper Categories drop-down list, select Shadows. 3 In the Drop Shadow subcategory, click the first preset—Offset Bottom Right . (Hover over a preset to display its name.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text 8 On the Styles tab, select the Reflection category. 9 Scroll down to the Artistic Text Reflections subcategory and click Text Reflection 02. Well done, your title text is complete! Now let’s turn our attention to the contact details at the bottom of the poster. If you click on this text object, the HintLine toolbar tells you that this is a text frame. The information contained in this frame is derived from the User Details dialog.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text 4 Click inside the text frame to set an insertion point just before the Address Line 2 user details field. Press the Enter key to put this text on a new line. 5 Click on the Fax field and press the Delete key to remove it. 6 (Optional) Repeat steps 4 and 5 to format the contact details and remove any unwanted information. 7 (Optional) To change the font, formatting, or color of the text, use the procedures outlined on page 4.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text 5 With the design still selected, on the Arrange toolbar, click Settings. Wrap 6 In the Wrap Settings dialog:: · In the Wrapping section, click Tight. · In the Wrap To section, click Right. · Click OK. The text wraps around the design. Let’s finish by creating a new text frame. To create a text frame: 1 On the Tools toolbar, on the Text Frames flyout, click the Text Frame.
