Operation Manual

Working with Text 101
Working with Unicode text
On occasion, you may wish to import text in a foreign language, e.g. you may
want to include a foreign quote in its original language. To work outside the
standard ASCII character set, DrawPlus allows Unicode characters to be pasted
(using Edit>Paste Special...) from the clipboard into your drawing.
To retain formatting, use "Formatted Text (RTF)" or for plain text use
"Unformatted Unicode Text."
Editing text
Once you've entered either artistic, frame or shape text (see Entering text on
p. 99), you can retype it and/or format its character attributes (i.e., font, point
size, bold/italic/underline, subscript/superscript, OpenType font features),
paragraph properties, and text flow. Text objects have graphic properties, too:
artistic text behaves like an independent graphic object (it can be scaled), while
shape or frame text conforms to its container or frame.
Artistic text, text frames, and shapes containing text can all be rotated, skewed,
moved, and copied. You can also apply line and fill colour independently, brush
strokes/edges, or apply opacity and transparency effects, for interesting text
effects.
Colour can be applied to selected text as a solid, gradient or bitmap fill—for a
solid fill, simply select one or more characters and apply a solid colour from the
Studio's Colour tab (ensuring the fill swatch is set) or the Character dialog. See
Setting fill properties on p. 147.
For a gradient or bitmap fill, use the Studio's Swatch tab. See p. 159 or p. 162,
respectively.
Similarly, opacity is applied from the Colour tab (see p. 167); gradient and
bitmap transparency from the Transparency tab.