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The control Palette displays the properties
for the selected paragraph, Character or object. It is a sort
of shortcut to the object, text, and paragraph properties.
Choose Window and select Show Control Palette to display the Control palette.
| Control Palette In Object Mode |
The control Palette when it has an object
selected displays the object properties such as the reference
point, position, size, scaling, cropping, printer resolution,
rotating, skewing and horizontal and vertical reflection.
| Horizontal/vertical mirror |
mirrors
the currently selected object along the x or y-axis. |
| Height/width |
sets the height
and width of the currently selected object, either
numerically in inches or in percentages of the current size. |
| Rotate |
Rotate, is used
to rotate the selected object around an axis. The
center of rotation is set as the object's center and
exact measurements can be used |
| Skew |
This skews, the
currently selected object, in degrees. |
| XY position |
sets the horizontal
and vertical position of the upper-left corner of the currently selected object. |
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| Control Palette in Character Mode |
The Character Palette is displayed when
the text tool is selected. It has options for changing text
styles, size, leading, tracking, width and Kerning. There
is a toggle button to shift between paragraph view and character view.
| Kerning |
Text Kerning
adjusts the spacing between characters in text. It
is selective, so you can adjust just one or two characters,
or whole sections of text. Negative numbers move characters
closer together, whereas Positive numbers space them out. |
| Leading |
Text Leading
adjusts the spacing between lines of text. This is
applicable on line-by-line basis. Positive and Negative
numbers have the same effect as they have on Kerning,
except that the spacing is between the lines of text. |
| Tracking |
Text Tracking
adjusts how closely characters follow each other.
Very tight tracking brings text closer together, very loose spreads it out a bit. |
| Size |
Text Size adjusts point size of text. |
| Position |
Text Position
adjusts the placement of the text on a given line.
Positive Numbers move the text into a super text position
(above the line), and Negative numbers move it into
a subtext position (below the line). |
| Width |
Text Width adjusts
the character width and does not affect height. The
larger the percentage, the wider the word. Percentages
over 100% make it proportionately larger than the
standard sizing, under 100% make it proportionately smaller. |
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| Control Palette In Paragraph Mode |
The control Palette displays options for
the paragraph style, alignment, indents, spacing, grid spacing and grid alignment
The color Palette is used to apply colors
or view the name or kind of color applied to the selected
text or object. The buttons stroke, fill or both, can be used
to change the color of the graphic object and Object level.
Tints allow you to have variations of the same color. To apply
a color to a text or object, select the corresponding text
or object and select the color from the color Palette. Choose
Window and select Show Colors, to display the Colors palette.
The Styles Palette is used to apply styles
or to view or edit styles defined for the publication. To
apply a style, just click a paragraph with the text tool and
then click a style name in the palette. Choose Window and
select Show Styles to display the Styles palette.
The Layer Palette is used where a multiple
layers document structure is required. Layers allow you to
separate the different elements that make up your document.
You can hide, display, add or delete layers as required. Choose
Window and select Show Layers to display the Layers Palette.
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