OPERATION WITH THE TEXT AND THE FONT
One of the strengths of the program of adobe Illustrator is operation with the text, formatting of the text and font usage, And it it is no wonder as the firm of adobe is at the beginnings of development of numeral fonts. The font format of adobe Type created by it 1 became the standard (and the character) to the quality press.
In the program it is possible to fulfill all standard operations with a font (to change typeface, an outline, a size, kerning and tracking) and something over it (to direct on the arbitrary circuit to carry out a dial-up on a vertical). Unlimited possibilities are represented but to exterior design of a font by means of decorative circuits, decorative filling, extensions and etc.
In the program "all conditions" for operation with the Chinese, Japanese and Korean hieroglyphs (CJK) are created. This subject in the book is not considered.
Text entering
Tools groups Type (Text) serve for a dial-up of the horizontal or vertical text in any place of the document.
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Nota Bene. Moreover, it is necessary to pay attention at once what to enter the text it is possible various methods: to allocate in the square-topped frame or in a column, in circuits of the wrong form, and also to direct along the linear circuit. |
Naturally, it is possible to use the text typed in other programs, importing and converting it from various formats.
Tools of the heading text
By means of tools Type (Text) (
) and Vertical Type (the Vertical text) (
) can be entered in any place the arbitrary text which is not restricted neither the frame, nor a column and consequently, the user should incur care of transfer of lines.
These tools are ideal means for a dial-up of titles, large and short inscriptions, captions and to that similar, therefore it is possible to name such method of input heading, and the entered text the heading text.
For a dial-up of the heading text (fig. 11.1) it is necessary to include tool Type (Text) () or Vertical Тyре (the Vertical text) (), thus the cursor becomes a letter I in the frame from points. The small dash intersecting a stand of a letter, designates a basic line (base line) a font — a line on which there is an alignment of all letters in line.
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| Rice 11.1. Examples of horizontal and vertical texts |
The cursor should be brought to a point of the beginning of a dial-up and to click the mouse button, as a result in addition on the screen there is a cursor of a dial-up in the form of flickering vertical (or horizontal for the vertical text) a dash which is moved in process of a dial-up and is controlled "by keys with arrows".
At a choice of a point of the beginning of a dial-up of the heading text it is necessary to avoid click within any object as in this case the program "considers" this object as a column for a dial-up.
If all the same it is required to place the text over existing object it is possible, selecting object, to delete it temporarily from the screen command Hide Selection (Sprjtat selected) menu Object (Object), or that much easier and is more practical, typing the text in any the friend the free place from objects, to move it over object. The vector graphics program offers the full freedom of a manipulation objects.
For line feed, i.e. cursor transfer for a new line, it is necessary to use a key [Enter]. By default the text is typed by 12 size of font Helvetica. How further to change text parameters, look further in section "font Parameters" this chapter.
Selection of fragments of the text
By operation with the text probably selection of a separate letter, a word, the paragraph, the arbitrary amount of letters and generally the arbitrary amount of the text. Text selection is necessary that at the selected fragment it was possible to change its parameters or as speak, "to change text formatting", and also or to fulfill other operations, for example, to delete, transfer to clipboard Clipboard and etc.
For text selection following receptions are normally used.
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Pushing the mouse button in the beginning of the selected area, to "stretch" the cursor till the end of demanded area and to release the button. |
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The key [Shift] allows to accelerate this process, as enough two clicks: in the beginning and in the end of the selected area. With a pushed key it is possible to select a fragment of the text by means of cursor control keys |
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Double click selects a current word. Triple click selects the current paragraph. |
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By means of keys [Shift] + [Ctrl] and keys [ ] it is selected previous, and by means of keys [Shift] + [Ctrl] and keys [ ] - subsequent paragraphs. |
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By means of keys [Shift] + [Ctrl] and keys [ ] it is selected previous, and by means of keys [Shift] + [Ctrl] and keys [ ] — the subsequent word. |
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Command Select All (to Select all) menu Edit (Editing) allows to select all current text unit. |
In the program one more method of selection of the text unit — on a basic line is applied. At leading of the cursor of tools Selection (Selection) (
) or Direct Selection (the Partial selection) (
) to a basic line and appearances near to it of a black small square is necessary to fulfill mouse click.
To use such method, it is necessary to remove flag Type Area Select (Selection of area of the text) section Type and Auto Tracing (the Font and autotrace) dialog box Preferences (Setting) (by default the flag is installed).
Block (абзацный) the text
The body text which differs in the considerable volume more often, is normally made out by columns of certain width, as a result the text looks units, therefore it is possible to name it block.
Other singularity of such text is automatic imposition on width of a column. At change of width of a column, at adding or at removal the text within the paragraph automatically переверстывается. An important element of such text is the paragraph, therefore it is possible to name it and абзацным.
Besides, some units can be united in the uniform text that under the text at editorial editings to "flow" from one unit in another, saving a continuity.
For creation of the block text by means of tool Horizontal Type (Text) () or Vertical Type (the Vertical text) () it is necessary to arrive as follows.
Including one of the specified text tools, it is necessary to create a text rectangle the same method by which the object by means of tools Rectangle (Rectangle) or Ellipse (Ellipse) is drawn: from one corner on a diagonal to the opposite.
The received text rectangle has no filling, обводки, therefore in a normal mode it is not displayed and on the press is not deduced-if in the art purposes it is necessary to create the frame or a color substrate it is necessary this rectangle to appropriate corresponding color, decorative filling, a thickness обводки and etc.
After creation of a text rectangle in its left upper to a corner the text cursor starts to flicker, signaling "readiness for a dial-up".
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Nota Bene. At a dial-up of the block text it is necessary to mean what to push a key [Enter] it is necessary only in a paragraph break. The basic difference of the heading text consists in it from the block: in the first case all switchings for a new line are completely defined by the user, and in the second the user sets only band width (columns) of a dial-up and a paragraph break, and the program automatically allocates the text in the lines taking into account type выключки, presence of transfers and many other things. |
If in a text rectangle it is typed the text more than in a state to be displayed at the given parameters of a font in right lower to a corner of a circuit of a rectangle (in a key line mode always, and in a normal mode at selection of a rectangle with the text) the small square signed "plus" (fig. 11.2 is deduced).
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| Rice 11.2. The small square signed "plus ' is displayed on a text frame at mismatch of the text unit and the sizes of a text frame |
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| Rice 11.3. Change of scale of a text rectangle by means of markers of a dimensional rectangle |
To change the size of a text rectangle, it is necessary to select the text unit beforehand.
At selection of the text unit by means of tool Selection (Selection) () there are accessible markers of a "dimensional" rectangle with which help it is easy to change the size and proportions of a text rectangle (fig. 11.3). For proportional scaling it is necessary to retain a key [Shift].
At selection of the text unit by means of tool Direct Selection (Partial вьщеление) () can be changed freely the form, moving reference points. All changes in the form of a text rectangle are automatically fulfilled by the program (fig. 11.4).
Tool Direct Selection (the Partial selection) () to apply in a key line mode (outline) as in a normal mode the circuit of a text rectangle is not displayed easier. Except other, at selection it is necessary to try not to get on basic lines of the text, the text, instead of a text frame differently will be selected.
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| Rice 11.4. An example of change of the form of a text frame and text layout |