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Positioning inline graphics
You can edit the point size, paragraph spacing, word and letter spacing, baseline shift, alignment,
leading, and horizontal scale of an inline graphic. To adjust type attributes, you use the Text
menu, the Object panel, or the Text toolbar.
To position an inline graphic:
1
Using the Text tool, select the inline graphic. If you want, you can also select any
surrounding text.
2
Use the Text menu, the Object panel, or the Text toolbar to adjust the following
type attributes:
•
Adjust leading at the insertion point to accommodate the graphic’s height. By default, the
bottom of an inline graphic is aligned with the text baseline.
•
Use kerning to move the inline graphic and the text characters that immediately surround it
closer together (with a negative value) or farther apart (with a positive value).
•
Adjust baseline shift to move the inline graphic below (negative value) or above (positive value)
the baseline of the surrounding text.
For more information about adjusting leading, kerning, and baseline shift, see “Setting
alignment, leading, range kerning, and baseline shift” on page 253.
3
Adjust the text wrap by entering Inset values in the Object panel when the Text Block property
is selected in the Properties list.
Text wraps flush with the graphic’s left edge and leaves a slight space at the right edge of the inline
graphic’s bounding box.
Applying text effects
FreeHand provides six text effects: highlight, inline, shadow, strikethrough, underline, and zoom.
You can set options for all text effects. You can also search for occurrences of a text effect in a
document.
First row: highlight, inline, and shadow effects; second row: strikethrough, underline, and zoom effects
Applying text effects can make redrawing slower as you work with documents. You can set
options to avoid this problem when editing. In addition, text effects may be lost when printing to
non-PostScript printers, converting to paths, or exporting to some file formats.