Operation Manual

Working with Text 195
To resize or reproportion an artistic text object:
• Drag the object's corner handles to resize it while maintaining the
object's proportions.
• To resize freely, hold down the Shift key while dragging.
To edit artistic text:
• Drag to select a range of text, creating a blue selection.
You can also double-click to select a word.
Now you can type new text, apply character and paragraph formatting,
edit the text in WritePlus, apply proofing options, and so on.
Putting text on a path
"Ordinary" straight-line artistic text is far from ordinary—but you can extend its
creative possibilities even further by flowing it along a curved path.
The resulting object has all the properties of artistic text, plus its path is a Bézier
curve that you can edit with the Pointer Tool as easily as any other line! In
addition, text on a path is editable in some unique ways.