Text objects
All text in a Canvas document is contained in objects called text
objects. Text objects can contain a single character or line of text, or
thousands of words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Note: Dimension objects contain dimension text. For more informa-
tion on text in dimensions, see the description of Dimensioning tools
beginning on page 24.448.
Selecting and editing text objects
A text object can be selected or be in edit mode. These states are
mutually exclusive. In other words, a text object cant be in edit mode
and be selected at the same time.
When a text object is in edit mode, the Text tool is active and you can
add, move, and delete text in the text object. For text-editing proce-
dures, see Text edit mode on page 27.513.
When a text object is selected, you can change its dimensions, delete
it, move it, and apply commands and operations to it, the same as you
would with other objects. For more information, see the chapter titled
Working with objects on page 16.245.
Typing text in a document
You use the Text tool or the Vertical Text tool to type text into a doc-
ument. This section describes using the Text tool for typing.
The Vertical Text tool does not appear unless Enable two-byte
script is selected in the Preferences dialog box. The Vertical Text
A selected text object has
handles at the corners and
midpoints of its bounding box.
In edit mode, an insertion
point appears in the text,
and the Text tool pointer
is an I-beam.
Insertion point
I-beam pointer