Specifications

ManualsBrandsPioneer ManualsPrint & ScanDVD Menu Maker

Adding

and Editing Text

You can easily add any text to your DVD menu pages. To do that you should use the

Add Text button of the Editing Area or the Add Text option of the Page section of

the Main Menu. After you use either option to add the

text, the default 'Text' caption will be added to your

created menu page. To change the text itself you will

need to click it with the right mouse button and select

the Edit Text option from the right-click menu or

double-click it with the left mouse button.

You can also change the text properties using the text

Properties Area. The following Text properties can be

viewd or changed:

Position - use it to control the text position on the

menu page. It will show the text position in relation to

the menu page corners and the width and height of the

text bounding rectangle. The position is changed when

you change the text size or position or when you rotate

the text.

Text - use it to select the text font, its size from the

drop-down boxes, change text font style using the

appropriate buttons (B for bold text,

for italicized text and U for

underlined text). Here you can also

change the text alignment within its

bounding rectangle selecting one of

the alignment types.

Pen - use it to select the outer line of

the text (the inner space is filled with

the Brush). You can choose the Pen

Color, transparency using the

Transparency slider and selecting

between the values from 0 (fully

transparent invisible pen color) to

255 (null transparency - fully visible

pen color), and Pen Width using the slider.

Brush - use it to fill the inner space with the selected color or colors. See the Filling Background Using Brush section for

more detail on the Brush settings.

Advanced Text Settings - use it to create the text Shadow ticking the appropriate box, select the text shadow Color,

Transparency using the slider and selecting between the values from 0 (fully transparent invisible shadow color) to 255

(null transparency - fully visible shadow color), Blur (0 being the Blur absence and 10 marking the maximum Blur value),

and the shadow horizontal (Distance X) and vertical (Distance Y) positions in relation to the text itself.

You can also change the Text box size using the black squares on its boundaries (the mouse button will look like this when

you hover it over one of the black squares - click the mouse button and, without releasing it, drag it to change the text size).

change the Text orientation, click the green circle (visible when the text is selected with the mouse) with the left mouse

button, the mouse cursor will change into a round arrow - - click the mouse button and, without releasing it, drag it to change

the text orientation.

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