Owner`s manual

132 MaxMotion for Machines
edge of left aligned arc and right edge or right aligned arc cannot be
dragged.
When an arc is flattened, its width may change to accommodate normal
width or condense percent of flat line.
To help visualizing the arc while dragging, we show constantly
changing red outline of arc within the blue box, until you release the
mouse button, when we replace it with the text. We guarantee this red
arc to be accurate only either if the condense mode is single line or if
there is no other similar line on the layout that affects width factor of
this line or if it has fit alignment. Otherwise the placement and the
trajectory of the arc will be correct, but its length may turn out to be
somewhat different, affected by the condense factors of other lines on
the layout.
Semicircle is a special case, that may be often required, but not being
an end condition, it may be difficult to judge when you reach it while
dragging. For this we provide a small snap while dragging when the
box can hold semicircle. Actually it is a little more than a strict
geometrical semicircle, such that an average character at each end is
horizontal. If you are slowly dragging, you will notice the snap.
Arc makes a lot of demand on system resources. An arc having 15
letters is equivalent to 15 straight lines, as each letter at different angle
means a different font. Windows takes some time creating a font,
Which is why more characters an arc contains, longer it will take
for it to be formed once you stop dragging it or make any changes to it.
For the same reason, Auto layout and edit layout of a layout having arcs
would take longer to complete. Apparently windows has an upper limit
to the number of fonts it can simultaneously hold, so if you keep
creating many big arcs in a layout, eventually windows will fail. After
that you may see all the characters written at the same angle, though
view path would show them properly.
The feature to edit arc or an angled line works in the following
manner:
In text edit mode, if you click on an arc or angled line or anywhere in
the box, an edit text dialog will come up with the content of arc or