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• Baseline Shift: Specify a value to raise or lower the font from its baseline.
• Scale Direction: Specify whether the font is scaled horizontally or vertically.
• Scale Amount: Specify the amount of horizontal or vertical scaling.
The Sample Text area of the dialog box displays sample text that uses each of the fonts
in the font set.
You can apply a font set to text in the same way that you apply a font to text. Simply
select the text and choose a font set from the font drop-down menu in the Measurements
palette. Font sets display at the top of the list.
To append a font set to a project, use the Append button in the Font Sets dialog box
(Edit > Font Sets).
Working with grouped characters
Use the Group Characters dialog box (Style menu) to include a group of horizontal
characters, such as Roman characters, within a vertical line of text. Grouped characters
always display horizontally and do not break at the end of a line. To group selected
characters:
1
Choose Style > Group Characters.
2
Choose Vertical or Horizontal from the Scale drop-down menu and enter a percentage
in the field to the right of the Scale drop-down menu.
3
If you want to change the character spacing, enter a value in the Track/Sending Amount
field.
4
Click OK.
Aligning characters on a line
The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small characters
in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align characters based on
their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes.
Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face (ICF) box is
a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend. ICF boxes are necessary
to ensure that glyphs in an East Asian text flow do not touch each other. The red area in
the diagram below represents the boundaries of the em box. The yellow area represents
the ICF box.
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