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Working with Text Blocks |
The Print Shop provides you with a number of ways to modify and draw attention to text in your project. You can resize, scale, rotate, and flip text blocks for eye-catching effects.
To resize a text block:
1. Click the text block once to select it.
2. The text block now has resizing handles (the gray squares in the corners and on the middle points of the sides).
3. When you position the pointer over one of these handles, the pointer changes to the resize pointer (a double-headed arrow).
4. Drag the resize pointer to change the size of the selected text block.
To scale a text block:
1. Click the text block once to select it.
2. Choose Scale from the Arrange menu. The Scale dialog appears.
3. Type the scaling percentage you want in the Percentage box, or click the up or down arrows to change the percentage. You can also drag the Scale slider to change the size.
4. To scale the selected object proportionately, select the All Directions option. (This option is selected by default.)
5. You can apply a stretch to the selected object. To stretch an object horizontally (make it wider without making it taller), select the Horizontal only option. To stretch an object vertically (make it taller without making it wider), select the Vertical only option.
To rotate a text block:
1. Select the text block.
2. Choose Rotate from the Arrange menu.
3. Choose Left 90 degrees from the submenu to rotate the text block 90 degrees left.
4. Choose Right 90 degrees from the submenu to rotate the text block 90 degrees right.
5. Choose Other from the submenu to rotate the text block by any other amount.
6. The Rotate dialog appears.
7. Type the degree of rotation you want in the Degrees box, or click the up and down arrows to change the number of degrees. You can also drag the rotate dial to change the angle of the selected text block.
8. The degree of rotation will be displayed in the preview area.
9. When you are through, click the OK button to apply the rotation, or click Cancel to discard any changes.
TIP: You can rotate a selected object by dragging the rotate handle. If you hold down the Option key and drag the rotate handle, your object is rotated to the nearest angle (depending on the rotation direction) divisible by 15 degrees. If you hold down the Shift key instead of the Option key, your object is rotated to the nearest angle divisible by 45 degrees.
To flip a text block:
1. Select the text block.
2. Choose Flip from the Arrange menu, then choose either Horizontal, Vertical, or Both from the submenu.
TIP: You can rotate, flip, and resize more than one object at a time by selecting multiple objects. To select more than one object, hold down the Shift key while clicking each object.
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