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Chapter 5 Manipulating Letters and Shapes
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Using the Break Text Technique to Spell Words Vertically
This technique is preferable when you have mixed upper- and lower-case letters. These letters
often are not spaced evenly when typed vertically.
Figure 136
1 Type the word letter-by-letter in the font you prefer. Press the
ENTER
key after typing each
letter to move the cursor down to the next line.
2
Use the Select Elements tool to select the word.
3 From the Text menu, click Break Text/Break by Character . This separates the word into
individual letters. See column 1 in figure 136.
4 Use the Draw Rectangle tool to create a small box in the size you want to apply as spacing
between the letters.
5 Position the rectangle between the first two letters. Select the letter to be moved and use the
arrow keys on your computer’s keyboard to move the letter up or down. See column 2.
6 Continue using the rectangle as a spacer to help with the positioning of the letters. See
column 3.
7
Use the Select Elements tool to select the entire word, and then drag a box around it. When
you release the mouse button, all of the letters will be selected together.
8 From the Text menu, click Center . The letters in the word line up underneath each other.
See column 4.
Joining Letters Together
This section provides two methods for joining letters: by using the Visual Text Spacing tool
with Welding and by using the Welding tool to weld a bar to the bottom of a word.
Using Visual Text Spacing to Join Letters
1
Type a word in the font of your choice and then select it.
2
On the Text menu, click Visual Text Spacing . Visual Text Spacing places a little box
under each letter and an arrow pointing to the right under the word. See figure 137.
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