Choosing A Truetype® Font; Choosing The Fill Type For Truetype® Lettering; Changing The Shape Of Lettering Manually - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

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Choosing a TrueType®
font
When you install Xpressive, the software
locates all the TrueType® fonts you have
installed on your computer.
TrueType® fonts are installed by the
operating system not by Xpressive.
TrueType® fonts
To choose a TrueType® font:
1 Select the lettering segment.
2 Press Ctrl+E on your keyboard and
choose Properties from the menu.
You see the Segment Settings property
pages.
To open the Segment Setting property
pages, you can also select the segment
and click the Segment Settings
on the ribbon or double-click the
segment.
3 Click the Text property page.
4 Under Font Type, select TrueType® Font.
5 In the Font list, select a font.
6 Click OK.
You see the lettering altered accordingly.
Choosing the Fill type for
TrueType® lettering
You can choose different Fills for TrueType®
lettering using the Fill Type setting on the
Text property page.
To choose the Fill type:
1 Select the lettering segment.
2 Click the Segment Settings
ribbon.
You see the Segment Settings property
pages.
3 Click the Text property page.
4 In the Fill Type list, select the Fill type.
5 Click OK.
Changing the shape of
lettering manually
Xpressive allows you to change the shape of
text by resizing and skewing characters.
tool
tool on the