To scale text using the mouse, To specify a numerical value for font size, Character spacing (kerning) – Pinnacle Speakers DEKO500 User Manual

Page 28: To kern text using the keyboard, To kern text using the mouse

Advertising
background image

Changing Text Appearance, Size, and Spacing

26

Deko500 User’s Guide

To scale text using the mouse:

1.

Click the scaling button in the Tools window.

2.

Select the text for scaling.

3.

Move the pointer to a handle on any side or corner of selected text,
so that the pointer becomes one of the scaling tools.

4.

Drag a handle either outward to increase or inward to decrease text
size.

Corner handles control height and width together; middle handles
on the right or left control width only; and middle handles on the
top or bottom control height only.

Hold Ctrl down while dragging a corner handle to preserve the
aspect ratio of the text — height and width scale together.

To specify a numerical value for font size:

1.

Select the text to scale. If no text is selected, Deko500 applies
changes to the current style.

2.

Do one of the following:

On the text bar, double-click the Size text box.

In the Style/Font window, then double-click the Size text box.

3.

In the text box, type or scroll to a new font size.

4.

Press Enter to apply the new size.

C

HARACTER

S

PACING

(K

ERNING

)

To kern text using the keyboard:

1.

In the Options menu, choose Transform/Kerning & Leading
(Ctrl+K).

2.

In the Options menu, choose Transform and set increment of
change to Coarse or Fine (Ctrl+spacebar).

3.

Select the characters to kern.

4.

Hold down Alt and press either the right arrow (

) to widen the

space between selected characters, or the left arrow (

) to reduce

character spacing.

To kern text using the mouse:

1.

Click the kerning/leading button in the Tools window.

Advertising