HP CN088A - Serif PosterDesigner Pro Tutorial
Serif posterdesigner software pro for hp designjet printers - working with text
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Working With Text
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to:
· Work with artistic and frame text.
· Create, edit, and format text.
· Apply shadows, reflections, and other text effects.
· Create shaped text (or text-on-a-path).
· Edit user details information.
· Wrap frame text around pictures.
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Page 1: Working With Text
Poster Designer Pro Working With Text In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to: · Work with artistic and frame text. · Create, edit, and format text. · Apply shadows, reflections, and other text effects. · Create shaped text (or text-on-a-path). ·... - Page 2 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Working With Text Poster Designer Pro offers frame text and artistic text. You can use the same methods to perform operations such as selecting, editing, and formatting both types of text. However, there are a few differences, as outlined in the following table.
- Page 3 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text In the center pane, select the Green Fingers template and then click Open. The template opens as a new poster in the workspace. To begin, we’ll show you how to select, edit, and format text. The methods described in the following sections are applicable to both artistic and frame text.
- Page 4 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To format text: Triple-click anywhere on the line of text you’ve just edited to select the entire line. At the top of the workspace, on the Text context toolbar: · Click to expand the Point Size drop-down list and set the point size to 72 pt.
- Page 5 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To create artistic text: On the Tools toolbar, on the Text flyout, click the Artistic Text Tool. Click anywhere on your page to set a text insertion point. On the Text context toolbar: · In the Font drop-down list, select Galeforce BTN. ·...
- Page 6 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Now let’s make our poster title a little more interesting. In the following sections, we’ll apply a different font, a gradient fill, and a reflection effect (all of these procedures work equally with artistic and frame text). Finally, we’ll fit the text to a curved path (only applicable to artistic text).
- Page 7 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text To edit a gradient fill: Select the text object and then on the Tools toolbar, click the Fill Tool. The object’s fill path is displayed. You can adjust the fill path: · To change the color spread, click and drag the fill path nodes.
- Page 8 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Resize the text object by clicking and dragging the top and side edge resize handles. Drag the text back into position on top of the white background area. Stretch out the text path slightly by dragging the Start and End nodes.
- Page 9 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Let’s now apply some filter effects to our text. Poster Designer Pro includes a wide range of preset filter effects, which you can apply from the Styles tab with a single click . To apply filter effects: Click on the ‘Green Fingers’...
- Page 10 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text On the Styles tab, select the Reflection category. Scroll down to the Artistic Text Reflections subcategory and click Text Reflection 02. Well done, your title text is complete! Now let’s turn our attention to the contact details at the bottom of the poster.
- Page 11 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text Click inside the text frame to set an insertion point just before the Address Line 2 user details field. Press the Enter key to put this text on a new line. Click on the Fax field and press the Delete key to remove it.
- Page 12 Poster Designer Pro Working With Text With the design still selected, on the Arrange toolbar, click Wrap Settings. In the Wrap Settings dialog:: · In the Wrapping section, click Tight. · In the Wrap To section, click Right. · Click OK. The text wraps around the design.