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OCR: Creating text You create text for an illustration in the "Text" dialog box, which you open with the text tool. Once you enter text in the dialog box and close it the text appears in the illustration as text block. Text blocks can vary in length from one character to several paragraphs containing up to .000 characters. You apply type attributes such as font size leading, style, effect, and alignmentt the text determine appearance To create text: Select the text tool. Position the text tool I-beam anywhere in the illustration window. Click the mouse button, or press the mouse button and drag tr I-beam. to open the "Text" dialog box. 1f you drag the I-beam, the dialog box opens when you release the mouse button The distance you drag determines the width of the text block. Type your text in th ...