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Chapter 7

Using Text

Adding Text With the Text Tool

Text is added to a project with the Text tool.

To add text to your project, do one of the following:

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Click the Text tool (or press T), click in the Canvas, then begin typing.

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Click the Text tool, then drag in the Canvas to draw a custom margin. Once the margin
is drawn, release the mouse button and begin typing.

Once a margin is created and text is entered, you can adjust the size of the margin
without affecting the scale of the text.

To adjust margin size without scaling the text, do one of the following:

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With the Text tool selected, drag one of the control points on the text bounding box.

With the Text tool, drag a
bounding box control
point.

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