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Table Of Contents
- Welcome to MAGIX 3D Maker
- Support
- Working with MAGIX 3D Maker
- How To ...
- Open a new document
- Change the text
- Rotate and position the graphic
- Light the graphic
- Color the graphic
- Resize the graphic
- Add bevels & extrude
- Select characters
- Add shadows
- Create animations
- Save and export
- Importing 2D objects
- Apply the style of an existing graphic
- Create buttons, boards, boards + holes and borders
- Create screensavers
- Create Flash files
- Customize
- Reference Section
- Copyright Information
Dimmed unless there is a selected area of text.
Positive values raise the selected characters above
other characters. Negative values lower the selected
characters.
Kerning:
Dimmed when there is a selected area of text. This
controls the spacing between the pair of characters
either side of the cursor. This is similar to tracking
except that kerning applies to a pair of characters.
Tracking applies to either all characters or the
characters in the selected area.
Page break:
This is used when creating multi-page animations to
separate each page. You can type a page break
character from the keyboard using Ctrl+Enter.
Font list
This displays all the TrueType fonts installed on your computer, including those installed with MAGIX
3D Maker. Selecting a font name previews the text in that font.
More
Click this to display the character map and a list of available character sets.
Character map:
This shows you the characters in the current character set. Most fonts do not include every possible
character—missing characters appear as either a blank or a small rectangle. Click on a character for an
enlarged view. Double-click on a character to inset it into the text.
Character sets:
Windows has two types of font: Regular, which has 256 characters, and Unicode fonts, which have many
more characters arranged into separate sets of 256 characters. A typical Unicode font might include
several different versions of Latin characters (Regular, Central European, Baltic) plus Cyrillic and Greek
alphabets.
The U
button is dimmed for regular fonts.
For Unicode fonts, unchecking U
lists the basic character sets. Not all fonts include every character set; available sets are shown with > to
the left of the character set name. (The > depends on information contained in the font—this is not always
accurate.)
Checking U
lists the different types of character (such as Arrows) in the font. Again > shows available character
types.
Right-click menu
Right-clicking on the text preview pops-up a menu:
Zoom to fit
—scale the text to fit in the window
Zoom in
—enlarge your view of the text
Zoom out
—show more of the text
These options change your view of the text. They have no effect on the actual text size.
All options in this dialog box are available in Flash vector format.
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