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- <h2>Text Tool</h2>
- <p>This tool allows you to type text on to the current layer. While this
- tool is selected, you may click on the canvas to place the text cursor.
- While this cursor is blinking you may type to insert text. The
- <a href="Toolbar.html#TextControls">Text Controls in the Toolbar</a> can be
- used to change what font is used, the size of the fond, formatting, and
- justification.</p>
- <p><b>Note: </b>If you wish to have anti-aliased text, you must have
- Windows' anti-aliasing setting enabled. You may do this by going to the
- Display Properties control panel, clicking on the Appearance tab, clicking
- on the Effects button, and then enabling "Use the following method to smooth
- edges of screen fonts." (These instructions are written for Windows XP or
- Windows Server 2003, but should be similar if you are using Windows 2000.)</p>
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- <p>While you are typing, you may notice the presence of a control located
- below and to the right of the blinking text cursor. This control is a square
- with four arrows inside of it, and it pulsates slowly in order to
- distinguish it from the image that you are working on. This is called the <i>
- nub, </i>and may be used to move the text before you have finished with it.
- If you click and drag the nub, the text will move along with it.</p>
- <p>If you hold down the Ctrl key, the nub and cursor will not be visible
- until you release the Ctrl key. This is useful if you need to preview
- exactly how the text will appear without the distractions of the cursor and
- the nub.</p>
- <p>If you tap the Ctrl key, the nub will disappear. If you tap the Ctrl key
- again, it will come back.</p>
- <p>While typing, you may press the Esc key to finish the text and render it
- to the layer. Once you have finished with text, it may not be modified
- except by undoing it and retyping the text. To be precise, after the text is
- rendered it no longer exists in the image as text, but only as pixels and
- that is why this limitation exists.</p>
- <p>You may control the color of the text by setting the primary color in the
- <a href="ColorsWindow.html">Colors Window</a>. The text will also use the
- current file style, and antialiasing and alpha blending settings.</p>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Rick Brewster,
- Chris Crosetto, Dennis Dietrich, Tom
- Jackson, Michael Kelsey, Brandon Ortiz, Craig Taylor, Chris Trevino, and Luke Walker. Portions Copyright
- <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.</font><font size="1"> <br>
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