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206 Text Handling

Font replacement

It’s often useful to be able to completely replace one font with another across your entire
document or website, especially if you don’t have a particular font installed and want to
replace it with a font you do have.
In the Text Tool just right-click in the text with the font you want to replace and choose
the REPLACE FONT WITH … option from the context menu.
All variants of the font are replaced across your document, each with the matching
variant and size of your chosen font.

Simple text

If you wish to type a small amount of simple text, position the pointer where you want to
enter text and click. A red cursor appears where you clicked and you can now start typing
on the keyboard.

If you make a mistake, use "Delete" and "Backspace" in the usual way.

Pressing "Enter" completes the line and starts a new line of text below it. The inter-line
spacing is controlled by the line spacing text box on the InfoBar.

Simple text is not suitable for large paragraphs of text because there is no automatic line
wrapping (because the width is unlimited). Use a Text Column or Text Area instead (see
below).
By default text has no outline color. "Shift + clicking" on a color on the Color Line will give
the selected text an outline color - the thickness of which can be controlled by the line
width control, as usual. You will probably want to set the Line join type (on page 154) to
be rounded to give it a more smooth appearance (control at the top of the LINE GALLERY).

Line width is described in Changing the line width (thickness) (on page 151). Applying
color is described in Color handling (on page 180).

You can continue to enter text even after rotation, color filling or placing it on a curve.

Text in a column

If you are entering larger amounts of text, over multiple lines, using a column is more
useful. Changing the width of the column will automatically re-flow the text.