Editing Controls

Reform Text Editing Controls

1. Left and Right margins controls

This is an alternative to dragging the delimiters. Enter a value or use the arrow keys to adjust the position.

2. Scale control

Resizes the text to a given percentage of its original size.

3. Vertical checkbox

When checked, the text is vertical rather than rotated in the direction of the path. This option is useful for curves which represent 3D transformations.

4. Vertical angle control

By default 90° is "vertical".

5. Corner buttons

Defines the behaviour when text goes around a corner. There is no good way of flowing text around a sharp corner other than adding spaces to ensure that glyphs do not break on the corner. However if text is in fact non-text symbols, corner behaviour might be crucial.

6. Baseline radio buttons

Text can be:

   a: placed with its baseline on the path (normally what you want)

   b: placed so that the path goes through the text midpoint

   c: placed so that the path touches the top of the text

   d: placed so that the path touches the bottom of the text

7. Baseline offset control

The text baseline can be further refined with the baseline control.

8. Curve correction control

Adjust how the text distorts when going round curves. The value represents the adjustment to the offset from the curve. If text is not distorted nicely around sharp curves, setting this value will change the distortion. 

9. Justification radio buttons

    a: align to left delimiter

    b: align to the center of the delimiters

    c: align to right delimiter

    d: justify (reflow text and adjust spacing so that lines fit exactly in delimiters)

    e: scale the text until it fits exactly within the delimiters

    f: scale the text horizontally but not vertically until it fits exactly within the delimiters