Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 468)

468 Chapter 7 Using Text
4 In the Preview area, click Apply.
The text object is changed to the selected font.
Navigating the Font Browser Lists
To quickly locate a font by its name in the font stack, you can type the first letter of the
font name in the browser. For particularly unruly font lists (admit it, you have one), you
can quickly type the first few letters of the font name to select the font.
To select a font by the first letter of its name:
1 Click a font name or thumbnail in the font stack.
2 Type the first letter of the font name.
The first font that begins with that letter is selected in the stack.
To select a font by the first few letters of its name:
1 Click a font name or thumbnail in the font stack.
2 Quickly type the first two letters of the font name.
Note: If you do not type the second letter of the font name quickly, the selection is
reset and jumps to the font whose name begins with the second letter entered.
To move through the browser fonts in alphabetical order:
m Drag the scroll bar on the right side of the browser up and down to move through the
fonts.
Using the Text Tools
As previously mentioned, text becomes a text object when it is created. There are two
ways to edit a text object:
• Like any other object in Motion, text can be edited using the object parameters in
the Properties tab in the Inspector, or by using the onscreen controls.
• You can edit the text characters of a text object using the Text parameters in the Text
tab of the Inspector or in the Dashboard.
Apply button
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