Scott Shepherd
06-28-2009, 10:10 AM
I was speaking with a guy recently about fonts and he repeatedly mentioned adjusting the fonts in Corel with a right click. I couldn't figure out what he was talking about until just now. Now I feel unusually stupid for not knowing this. It certainly would have saved me some time.
In the attached image, you'll see 3 lines of the same text. The first line is normal, the 2nd line has had the kerning adjusted with the mouse, not having to go into Paragraph formatting, etc. And the 3rd line had letters physically moved as well as rotated, all without breaking it apart or converting it to curves.
If you select text, and select the tool at #1, you'll see it brings up small squares, much like node adjustments tools, under each letter of the text, as well as a odd looking thing for adjusting vertical and horizontal spacing, shown in positions #2. If you drag out the one on the right (Position #2), it will give you the appearance shown in "Normal Text" on Line 2, with the kerning adjusted wider.
If you click on any of the individual squares under a letter, you can do what you want with it. When you click on the box under a letter, it only impacts that letters. I have selected Position #3 in this example and you can see the box filled in. On the character formatting to the right of the screen, you can see I have rotated this one letter 15 degrees. On Position #4, I selected the letter and dragged it to a new location without ever having to break it apart.
Who knew? I certainly didn't know you could do all that with normal text. I'll be using that to adjust kerning from now on. Very quick, very visual tool, which really helps in adjusting letter spacing.
Hope this helped someone!
In the attached image, you'll see 3 lines of the same text. The first line is normal, the 2nd line has had the kerning adjusted with the mouse, not having to go into Paragraph formatting, etc. And the 3rd line had letters physically moved as well as rotated, all without breaking it apart or converting it to curves.
If you select text, and select the tool at #1, you'll see it brings up small squares, much like node adjustments tools, under each letter of the text, as well as a odd looking thing for adjusting vertical and horizontal spacing, shown in positions #2. If you drag out the one on the right (Position #2), it will give you the appearance shown in "Normal Text" on Line 2, with the kerning adjusted wider.
If you click on any of the individual squares under a letter, you can do what you want with it. When you click on the box under a letter, it only impacts that letters. I have selected Position #3 in this example and you can see the box filled in. On the character formatting to the right of the screen, you can see I have rotated this one letter 15 degrees. On Position #4, I selected the letter and dragged it to a new location without ever having to break it apart.
Who knew? I certainly didn't know you could do all that with normal text. I'll be using that to adjust kerning from now on. Very quick, very visual tool, which really helps in adjusting letter spacing.
Hope this helped someone!