Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 816)

• The Offset, Rotation, and Affects Layout parameters in the Format pane are not
available.
• When Scroll is selected from the Layout Method pop-up menu the text is flattened,
so the Flatten, Render Text, and Face Camera parameters are not available. For more
information, see the Flatten parameter description below.
For more information on safe zones, see Safe Zone .
• Crawl: Positions the text in a single string (within project safe zones) along the bottom
of the project in preparation for a crawl or ticker-type animation.
Double-clicking the text in the Canvas when Layout Method is set to Crawl displays a
scroll control below the text entry field.
Drag to scroll through
the text.
Crawl does not automatically animate the text—text is only positioned and formatted
in preparation for you to create an animation using keyframes or behaviors. For more
information on animating text, see
Animating Text .
When Layout Method is set to Scroll, the following occurs:
• The Adjust Glyph tool is not available.
• The Offset, Rotation, and Affects Layout parameters in the Format pane are not
available.
• When Crawl is selected from the Layout Method pop-up menu the text is flattened.
As a result, the Flatten, Render Text, and Face Camera parameters are not available.
For more information, see the Flatten parameter description below.
• Tabs are not available.
Alignment: Sets the alignment of the lines of text. The alignment choices are Left, Center,
and Right. The paragraphs of a text layer can be individually aligned by selecting the text
and choosing an alignment option from the pop-up menu.
Justification: Sets the justification of the lines of text. The justification choices are None,
Partial, and Full. The paragraphs of a text layer can be individually justified by selecting
the text and choosing a justification option from the pop-up menu.
Line Spacing: Specifies the distance between each line of text (leading) in point-size
increments. Dragging to the right (above 0) increases the line spacing and dragging to
the left (below 0) creates negative line spacing.
816 Chapter 13 Creating and Editing Text