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Glyphs palette
Control palette
Font selection
Size, leading, kerning, and
tracking
Horizontal and vertical scale,
baseline shift, and text rotation
Underline and strikethrough
Language for hyphenation and
spell checking
clicking and dragging a rectangular shape or use the Area Type tool to select
any closed path to contain your text.
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Type on a path flows along the edge of an open or closed path. The text
flows in the direction in which points were added to the path. In addition
to typing text in your artwork, you can import it from a variety of text file
formats (for example Microsoft Word, RTF, or plain text documents) by
choosing File > Place.
How do I insert special characters?
To insert special characters or characters for which you do not know the
keyboard shortcut, use the Glyphs palette. Using any type tool, click an insertion
point where you want to enter the character and then double-click the character
you want in the Glyphs palette.
How do I format text?
In FreeHand, you can format text both in the Object Panel and the Text toolbar.
In Illustrator, you can format selected text directly in the Control palette or by
using the Character or Paragraph palettes.
Where are the text effects?
In Illustrator, there are no text specific effects such as highlight, shadow, or
zoom. You apply text effects from the Effects menu just as you would with
any graphic element. You'll find strikethrough and underline in the Character
palette (if you do not see these options, choose Show Options from the palette
menu).
Paragraph palette
Character palette
Alignment
Indents
Space before and after paragraph
Automatic hyphenation
Text formatting tools
Working with Text 2
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