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Text Font Details

The Font tab view provides access to the detailed information concerning the font family and typeface of a text graphic.

The total number of characters in the text graphic are shown in the gray text box - upper right.

This detail view will indicate the extent of a "Range" of a text style. A range is a string of characters that have the same font and font characteristics. The total number of ranges are indicated by the blue number in parentheses. The starting character and ending character of the range are shown in the two numeric displays below the range heading. The stepper will advance to the next (previous) range.

The Font characteristics apply to the range indicated. The inspecting range is also indicated by a light gray box highlight visible directly on text on the drawing.

When editing text, if a range is selected, the range indicator and stepper will apply only to the selected text. To work with all the text of a graphic, simply select the graphic (one click) and do not edit the text.

The Font popup menu indicates the font family of the inspecting range of text. The menu is used to change the font family. The top entries (above the dotted line) indicate the font families used in the inspecting text graphic (other ranges).

The next menu is a convenience menu providing access to some of the more commonly used typeface selections. The Text Menu help documentation will have more information on these menu commands.

The Points menu indicates the point size for the inspecting Range. The menu and stepper is used to change the point size.

The Kern numeric entry will indicate the precise kerning value for the inspecting range. Kerning is a term indicating how much the following character is shifted from the normal spacing used with a particular character.

Close inspection of the Range indicators can be useful in understanding the exact contents of a string of text. Sometimes a copy / paste operation will insert unexpected font traits that might appear as minor printing nuances. It can be difficult to locate these situations. By selecting the text and noticing the number of ranges, the position and characteristics of the unexpected content can be found and corrected.

The top items on this font menu are the font families actually used in the inspecting text graphic. If a "favorites" or "recently used" font selection is needed use the convenience popup menu found near the bottom of the main System Font Palette .