Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 842)

Adjusting Glyph Attributes
The onscreen controls for adjusting a glyph’s style attribute are similar to the shearing
and four corner onscreen controls. You can also warp a glyph’s attributes in the Text
Inspector.
To warp a glyph’s style attribute in the Canvas
1 Select the text object that contains the glyph(s) that you want to modify, then select the
Adjust Glyph tool from the 2D transform tools in the Toolbar.
2 Select the attribute you want to modify (Face, Outline, Glow, or Drop Shadow) from the
Attribute pop-up menu in the Text HUD.
The glyph is enclosed by a bounding box with eight handles: four corner handles for
four-corner warping and four shearing handles located in the middle of the bounding
box edges.
Corner handles
Shearing handles
3 Do one of the following:
• To shear the style attribute, drag a shearing handle.
• To warp the style attribute, drag a corner handle.
Once the attribute is adjusted (Glow in this example), that parameter is selected in the
Style pane of the Text Inspector (the Glow checkbox). That parameter is only turned
on for the modified glyphs in the text object.
842 Chapter 13 Creating and Editing Text