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Selecting Fonts For Symbol Text

Select the symbol whose fonts you want to choose or modify, and choose the Symbol Text Edit ... command. With the Edit Symbol dialog box displayed, move the caret in the text area to the desired location to start a new font, or select the text to be "re-fonted." See Table 4-1 for how to select text. Then use the formatting bar at the top of the dialog to select the Font, Size and Emphasis for the text.

How Fonts Are Chosen

The list of fonts represents all fonts directly supported by the printer. Notice the buttons for font emphasis: Bold, Italic, Strike Out and Underline. You may choose these options. If your printer does not support these options directly, Windows will simulate the font instead of using the printer font.

The font properties currently in use at the cursor, or in the selected text will be shown as selected in the dialog box. If an area is selected where font characteristics vary, only those that are in common will be shown as selected. If emphasis varies, the emphasis check buttons will be "grayed".

Those font properties that are changed during the dialog will be applied to the selected text. This means that you can, for example, change the type size of selected text without changing the emphasis, which may vary within the selected area.

Depending on your display resolution, small fonts may not be legible in the edit text area. The Edit Symbol Text dialog box provides a Magnify check box to allow editing of small fonts. Checking this box will cause the text area of the symbol being edited to display at 2X normal size.

Changing Fonts In Groups Of Symbols

When one or more symbols are selected, the fonts in those symbols may be changed as a group, or reduced or enlarged as a group.

To modify font properties of a group of symbols, select the symbols, then choose the Symbol Text Font.. (Ctrl+F) command, or click on the button in the Tool Bar. The Choose Font dialog, as described above, will be displayed. Any changes made to the font properties will be applied to all selected symbols, as if all text in those symbols were selected.

To enlarge or reduce the size of the text in the selected symbols, choose the Symbol Text Enlarge (Alt +, or ), or Symbol Text Reduce (Alt -, or ) command. The fonts in the selected symbols will change by 2 points. Chartist-Pro


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