Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 622)

Chapter 16 Text 622
To create a blank text object, select the Text tool, then click or drag in the Canvas. Clicking
in the Canvas activates the Type layout method (the default), which requires that you insert
manual line breaks (by pressing Return) to make text wrap to a new line. Dragging in the
Canvas activates the Paragraph layout method, which wraps text into a column.
To edit existing text, select the Text tool, then click the text in the Canvas. An insertion point
appears in the Canvas, and the Text Inspector opens.
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Transform Glyph tool: Use this tool to select and transform glyphs (individual characters of text
objects). After you create text, click the Select/Transform tool and, holding down the mouse
button, choose the Transform Glyph tool from the pop-up menu, then click a glyph in the
Canvas to select it.
For more information on editing text glyphs, see Text glyphs overview on page 669.
About fonts
Which fonts are used?
Motion uses supported fonts installed on your OS X system. OS X-supported fonts include
OpenType, Type 1 (or PostScript), and TrueType. Supported fonts installed on your system appear
in the Fonts category of the Motion Library, as well as in the Format pane of the Text Inspector.
This includes fonts located in the following folders on your computer:
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/Library/Fonts/
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/Users/username/Library/Fonts/
For information on installing fonts, see OS X Help (in the Finder, choose Help > Help Center).
You can preview and apply fonts in the Motion Library or in the Format pane of the
Text Inspector.
Preview fonts
When you select a font in the Fonts category of the Library, a preview of the font is displayed in
the preview area of the Library.
Preview a font in the Library
1 In the Library, click the Fonts category.
2 Click the font subcategory to preview.
Note: The first subcategory, All Fonts, contains all fonts from the other subcategories.
If you are in list view, the font list appears in the stack. If you are in icon view, font thumbnails
appear in the stack, as shown in the image below.
List view Icon view
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