MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11, Use Manual

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Selecting text
To edit or delete text or change type attributes, you select the text with the Text tool.
When you click in a text block or select text with the Text tool, the text ruler appears. The text
ruler displays the text block’s width in points, as well as tab and indent markers. You can hide
or show the text ruler, and you can set preferences to show text block handles when the text ruler
is turned off.
To select text:
1
Click the Text tool.
2
Do one of the following:
•
To select characters, words, or paragraphs, click in a text block to place an insertion point and
drag to make a selection.
•
To select a word, double-click anywhere in the word.
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To select a paragraph, triple-click anywhere in the paragraph.
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To select all text within a text block, click in the text block and select Edit > Select > All.
To show or hide the text ruler:
Select View > Text Rulers.
To show text block selection handles when the text ruler is hidden:
1
Display text preferences by doing one of the following:
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In Windows, press U, then click the Text tab.
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On the Macintosh, press U, then click the Text category.
2
Select Show Text Handles When Ruler Is Off (the default setting) to display text handles when
you click in a text block with the Text tool and the text ruler is not visible. Deselect the option
to hide text block selection handles when the text ruler is hidden.
Note: Text block selection handles appear when you click in a text block with the Pointer tool, whether or not this
option is selected.
3
Click OK.
About text appearance
Like vector objects, text in FreeHand is anti-aliased in all drawing modes.
The exceptions are text that uses bitmap fonts and text that has been modified by the zoom text
effect, the inline text effect, or rotation and skew transformations.
You can turn the anti-aliasing preference off; for more information, see “Anti-aliasing artwork” on
page 28.
Note: On the Macintosh, anti-aliasing is only available if you’re running Mac OS X or later.