Apple LiveType 2 - Manual (Page 84)

84 Chapter 6 Working With Objects, Textures, and Imported Elements
Creating Strings or Stacks of Elements
In a way, LiveType looks at textures, objects, and imported elements as special kinds of
glyphs, or text characters. More to the point, individual elements are treated like fonts
whose character set consists of only one glyph.
This allows you to do an unusual thing in LiveType: You can create strings, or multiple
copies, of these elements on what, for all intents and purposes, amounts to a text track.
Anything you can do with one letter of a text font, you can do with objects, textures,
and imported elements.
Note: Objects cannot, however, be formatted as multiple lines on one track.
To create a string of elements on one track:
1 Add an object, texture, or imported element to the Canvas.
2 Make the object a reasonably small size to duplicate in the Canvas:
a Click the Attributes tab of the Inspector, then click the Glyph button.
b Make sure the lock icon next to the Scale sliders is closed, or locked, for proportional
scaling. If it appears to be unlocked, click the icon to lock it.
c Adjust the Scale sliders, or enter a value in one of the Scale fields.
3 Click inside the text-entry box in the upper-left corner of the Inspector. Note that a
single bullet is in the window, representing the object as a single glyph.
One imported graphic
duplicated on one track