Text

You can create both Paragraph text and Artistic text.

Paragraph Text is a formatted text with hyperlinks. When Actual Drawing is publishing a page it converts the paragraph text to HTML code, which loads relatively quickly in a web browser. The paragraph text cannot have a shadow.

Artistic Text may be drawn with shadow, using any font that your computer has. Think about Artistic Text as an image because Actual Drawing converts all artistic texts to images when publishing a page.

To add a Text

1. On the Insert menu, click Paragraph Text, or click Artistic Text.
2. Click anywhere in the Document Window and drag away (in any direction) from this point to size the text frame. The frame is created when you release the mouse button. The text cursor appears at the top left corner of the frame.

Editing text

You can type the text exactly how you want it to display in the page. You can also copy text from another source and paste it into the text box.

To edit text in the text layer

1. Select a text layer.
2. Double Click the selection box (or press Alt-Enter), then type the text.
3. Text will appear in the selection box as you type.
4. To break lines of text, at the end of a line, press ENTER.

Font Attributes

You can set font attributes for text, such as Bold, size, etc.

Changing font

1. Use the Font drop-down list to alter the font. When you click the drop-down font list, Actual Drawing provides a preview of a font as you scroll down.
2. Alternatively you can choose font from the Font dialog box by clicking the Font from the Format menu.

Typing international characters

1. To enter international characters you need to change language script for the specified font.
2. Click the Font from the Format menu and pick the language script from the Script list.

Changing text color

By default, the color of text is black.

To change text color

• Click the Color from the Format menu.

Changing color of the text background

Solid colors can be used as background for your text. By default, the background color is white.

To change background color

• Click the Background Color from the Format menu.

Adding Special Characters

You can add special characters, like © or ®, from a characters table.

To add special characters

1. Click Symbol in the Insert menu.
2. Click a character to insert it.