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Apple Motion 2 Tutorials User Manual

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Tutorial 2

Basic Motion Behaviors

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In the Text Dashboard, choose Center from the Alignment pop-up menu.

The position of the text object changes around its anchor point.

Like most Dashboards, the Text Dashboard contains a subset of the larger group of text
parameters. This is especially true for text, since text has such a large number of
parameters—so many, in fact, that the Text Inspector is divided into three panes of
controls.

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In the Inspector, click the Text tab and make sure the Format pane is active.

The Format pane contains text basics, such as the font, size, and tracking parameters.

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While watching the Inspector, drag the Size slider in the Text Dashboard.

The changes in the Dashboard are mirrored in the Inspector. Notice in the Dashboard
that it may be difficult to set the text to the exact point size you want, such as 50.