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256 Text Handling

• Or use the Font size pop-up slider (on page 201).
• Or manually increase/decrease font size with the "Ctrl + Shift + >" and "Ctrl + Shift + <"
keyboard shortcuts. This applies only if all selected text parts are of the same font
size.
• Or use the SELECTORTOOL to scale the whole text object.
Bold & Italic

Click the BOLD or ITALIC button on the InfoBar ("Ctrl + B" or "Ctrl + I")

This applies the bold or italic variant of the current font.

Text Underlining
Click the underline button on the InfoBar to apply an underline to the
selected text.
The underline color and size is automatically derived from the text color and size.

Highlighting text
To apply a text or paragraph background color - in effect a highlighter-style background
color...

• Highlight some text using the TEXT TOOL
• Right-click on a color in the COLOR LINE
• Select SET TEXT BACKGROUND or SET PARAGRAPH BACKGROUND from the menu

See Applying a Text Background color (on page 183) for more details.
Justification or text alignment

Justification always applies to the complete line. Any selected region is ignored.

LEFT justification: Align the left-hand edge of the text to the initial click position.
CENTER justification: Centers the text around the click position.
RIGHT justification: Align the right-hand edge of the text to the initial click position.

When using simple text the initial click position on the page is taken as the origin for text
justification.

Ligatures