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In CorelDRAW, choose the Text tool and then click-diagonal drag to define a paragraph text frame.. To make paragraph text web compatible, right-click the paragraph text object with the P

Especially if you’re pasting text from the Clipboard, the frame you drag for paragraph text might not accommodate the amount of text As a result, the text is hidden; the frame

is a dashed red outline instead of black To reveal the text, drag down the “window-shade handle,” the small square tab (bottom center) on the text frame; when there’s hidden text, the handle has a down arrow in its center

One of the most useful things you can do with paragraph text frames is to link them; instead of spoiling a design by increasing the size of the frame, you can create a second, third, or any number of additional frames, and flow the excess text into the new frames as you create the frames The advantage to this is that you can move the linked frames around

in your design, and the content (the printed message of the paragraph text) remains in perfect order For example, if you need to break a paragraph into two frames in the middle

of “Now is the time for all good people to come,” you do this, and in the future if you need

to resize the first paragraph text frame, the excess of words “pours” into the second frame, regardless of its position on the page This is too neat to simply describe with words, so let’s try creating linked text frames in the following steps

Creating Linked Paragraph Text Frames

1. In a word processor or plain text editor, copy some existing text to the Clipboard; it

doesn’t matter what the text is Highlight a few paragraphs and then pressCTRL+C

2. In CorelDRAW, choose the Text tool and then click-diagonal drag to define a

paragraph text frame Try to make the frame smaller than the text on the Clipboard

(eyeball it)

3. Insert your cursor in the frame, and then pressCTRL+Vto paste the Clipboard text If

you copied from a word processor, CorelDRAW will flash you the Import/Pasting

Text dialog, where you have the option of retaining the formatting (if any) created in

the word processor—font choice, point size, justification, and tabs are all attributes

of text formatting Go with it; click the Maintain Fonts And Formatting button and

then click OK

4. Click the bottom-center text handle (the box with the black arrow), and your cursor

is now loaded with all the text that was hidden from view because your frame is

smaller than the text you pasted into it Your cursor takes on a new look, shown in

the following illustration

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Click to load cursor with paragraph text overflow.

5. Click-diagonal drag to create a new, linked text frame The excess text from the first frame automatically flows into the new frame, shown here A light blue line with an arrow indicates the relationship between the text in the first and the second frame (don’t worry, this screen element does not print) Try repositioning the two frames now using the Pick tool Then try resizing the first frame You’ll see, dynamically, the second frame take the overflow from the first frame

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Web-Compatible Paragraph Text

If you are designing web pages in CorelDRAW, you should make all paragraph text web

compatible Web-compatible paragraph text will be exported as real text in the final HTML

web page Web-compatible paragraph text has a limited subset of normal paragraph text properties: font, size, bold, italic, underline, alignment, and solid color, but no tabs, bullets,

or other advanced features you might find in a DTP program All other properties are

removed from the text All text that is not web compatible (symbol fonts, certain extended

characters, and so on) is exported as bitmaps when the page is published to HTML Bitmaps

do not scale on dynamic HTML pages; they take more time to download than live text and

do not render to screen as crisply as actual text

To export text as web-compatible text and not as a bitmap, choose File | Export

HTML Don’t choose Export For Web See Chapter 28 for the details on exporting

text and graphics for website design.

To make paragraph text web compatible, right-click the paragraph text object with the

Pick tool, and choose Make Text Web Compatible from the pop-up menu

Editing Text: The Comprehensive Tour

A few of the basics of text entry and editing have been discussed to get you up and running

However, as your needs arise for more complex character formatting and fancy text layout,

you’ll want to become more familiar with the nitty-gritty of everyday typography and

publishing The good news is that CorelDRAW’s text-handling features are very similar to

your favorite word processor or desktop publishing program Just select the Text tool (F8)

and begin the exploration

Navigating with the Insertion Point Cursor

You can use the text cursor to select text a character at a time, by whole words, or even by

whole paragraphs, just by dragging to highlight You can also use theUP,DOWN,LEFT, and

RIGHT ARROWkeys on your keyboard to quickly navigate the cursor insertion point around

large amounts of text

Selecting Text

To place the text cursor (the I-beam) in the text where you want to start typing, click with

the left mouse button Any text you type will be inserted at that point and will have the same

style as the character to the left of the insertion point.

To select text with the Text tool cursor, click-drag with the primary mouse button from

the point at which you want the selection to start, and release the mouse button where you

want the selection to end Alternatively, click once to place the cursor in the text where

you want the selection to start, and then, while holding down theSHIFTkey, click where you

want the selection to end—all the text between the two clicks is selected Double-clicking

a word selects that word Triple-clicking selects the entire paragraph in which you

triple-clicked

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You can move the cursor with the cursor keys (the keyboard arrow keys) as well as with the mouse

● To move left or right a word at a time, holdCTRLwhile moving the cursor with the

LEFTorRIGHT ARROWkey

● To move up or down a paragraph at a time, holdCTRLand press theUPorDOWN ARROWkey, respectively

● To expand or contract the selection, holdSHIFTwhile moving the endpoint with the arrow keys

● To move to the beginning or end of the current frame, holdCTRLand press the

HOMEorENDkey, respectively Alternatively, use thePAGE UPorPAGE DOWNkey

to move up or down a frame

Moving Text

You can move a selection of text with the mouse by dragging-and-dropping; select the word

or phrase you want to move, and then with the primary mouse button click-and-drag the text

to its new location in the current text object—or in any other text object A vertical bar indicates the insertion point at the new location; the cursor becomes the international “no” sign (a circle with a slash through it) if it is not possible to drop the text at the current location

Dragging with the right mouse button causes a pop-up menu to appear when you drop

the text, with options for what to do with the text The options are Copy Here and Move Here, and Add To Rollover doesn’t do anything unless you have a web-page rollover defined You can use this special editing gesture to copy and move words within paragraph and artistic text, but you can also put the copied or moved text outside of the body of artistic and paragraph text In this event, the text is no longer in line with the text from which you copy or move, so only use this command (particularly Move) for a very good reason

Converting Between Artistic Text and Paragraph Text

To convert a block of artistic text to paragraph text, right-click the artistic text object with the Pick tool; then choose Convert To Paragraph Text from the pop-up menu The menu command is Text | Convert To Paragraph Text, and the keyboard shortcut isCTRL+F8 All the text formatting is maintained as closely as possible each time you convert between the two text types, although some formatting, such as paragraph text columns and effects, cannot be applied to artistic text and is lost

Going the other way, from paragraph text to artistic text, is similarly simple However,

all the text in a paragraph text frame must be visible: it cannot be hidden and you cannot

convert a linked paragraph text frame With the Pick tool, right-click over the paragraph text,

and then choose Convert To Artistic Text (CTRL+F8works, too)

Paragraph text objects that are web compatible cannot be converted to artistic text.

You need to first (with the Pick tool) right-click over web-compatible text, and then

uncheck the Make Text Web Compatible check box.

The Text Bar and Special Paragraph Formatting

Let’s dig deeper into paragraph text options and discover new ways to embellish your

printed message; create or open a document now that contains a paragraph text frame

Because of the large screen resolutions we enjoy today, we can view pages at almost a 1:1

resolution as they would print, but this also means we might need to scroll and mouse

around a document more than is healthy for the wrists The solution in CorelDRAW is a

simple one: if you’re working extensively with text, you float the Text toolbar close to the

area of the document in which you’re fine-tuning Right-click over any area of the property

bar, and then choose Text from the pop-up menu You can drag the Text toolbar to hover

over any area you like

The Text toolbar can be used to edit single characters in artistic text and paragraph text,

but its real strength is in the offering of options for making paragraph text look polished and

sophisticated When the Pick tool or the Text tool is active, all the features shown in Figure 12-7

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FIGURE 12-7 The Text toolbar is a convenient gateway to the text formatting you need on a

daily basis

Font List Font Size Bold

Bulleted List Drop Cap Character Formatting

Edit Text

are active and at your disposal Additional modifications to the available options are described a little later in this chapter

The Text toolbar and the Text options on the property bar when the Pick or the Text tool have selected text are essentially identical The Text toolbar is simply a more portable device for working closely with text.

Drop Caps and Bulleted Lists Formatting

A drop cap is a dropped capital character at the beginning of a paragraph, much larger than

the rest of the text, extending three, four, or more lines down in the paragraph…and it adds a touch of class to a document, particularly if you’re illustrating a fairy tale

Bulleted lists are a common necessity for page layouts: restaurant menus, assembly

instructions, just about anything that’s a list that doesn’t need to be a numbered list! In the following sections, you’ll see not only how to create a bulleted list, but also how to choose any character you like for the bullet and even create a hanging indent for the bulleted list for

an ultra-professional presentation

Creating a Drop Cap

You have a lot of options, hence a lot of design opportunities, for drop caps in a CorelDRAW document: you can decide on the drop cap’s height relative to the lines of paragraph text of its neighbors, whether it’s nestled into the body of the text or stands to the left (called a hanging indent), and even choose the font used for the drop cap

First, the Drop Cap button on the Text toolbar and property bar is available when the Pick tool is used to select paragraph text, and when the Text tool is used to highlight a

paragraph within a paragraph text frame This is a show/hide toggle button: it turns the

default attributes for a drop cap on and off within the selected text Therefore, you can create

a drop cap for paragraph text in one click, but if you want to add your own input, you need

to additionally work with the Drop Cap options box, as demonstrated in the following steps

Adding a Drop Cap to Your Paragraph Text

1. Create some paragraph text, as described earlier in this chapter

2. Use the Text tool to highlight a paragraph that you want to lead off with a drop cap You can create drop caps by simply selecting a paragraph text frame with the Pick tool, but doing so will put a drop cap at the beginning of every paragraph (after every hard return), which might be overdoing the effect

3. On the Text toolbar or the property bar, click the Drop Cap button; you’ll get the

default drop cap effect, as seen in the illustration below

4. The easiest way to make the drop cap into an ornamental drop cap is to toggle the

Drop Cap on the property bar to hide it; then highlight the first letter, and change the

font for this one character Then, with the I-beam cursor in front of the letter, click

the Drop Cap button once more

Barock Caps (a regional spelling of “Baroque,” not the U.S president) is a

wonderfully intricate storybook-style typeface It’s available for free at http://

moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm.

5. Choose Text | Drop Cap to display the options for the drop cap The most common

customizing would be to change how many lines the cap is dropped; by default, it’s

three, but four or even five can look interesting, depending on the font you use If

you feel there isn’t enough air between the paragraph text and the drop cap, use the

Space After Drop Cap spin box to increase the space to the right of the drop cap

You also have the option to Use Hanging Indent Style For Drop Cap, which casts

the drop cap to the left of the paragraph text while the paragraph text then takes

on a flush-left indent The following illustration shows the completed effect; a

hanging indent was not used because the design uses paragraph text inside a path

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(discussed later in this chapter) to wrap the text around the cartoon, and an indent would spoil the overall composition

Making Bulleted Paragraph Text

Like the toggling Drop Cap button, the show/hide Bulleted List button can be your one-click stop for creating bulleted lists; however, you’ll surely want a custom bulleted list that looks

as artistic as your document layout On the Text menu you’ll find the Bullets command; it’s straightforward and you’ll quickly achieve great results Find or create a list of something, and follow along to see how to work the options for bullets

Creating a Bullet Motif

1. There’s no real harm in simply using the Pick tool to select the paragraph text you want to make a fancy bulleted list: every line break in the list begins a new bulleted item, so select the text and then click the show/hide Bulleted List button on the property bar or on the Text toolbar See the following illustration

2. Choose Text | Bullets.

3. Choose a typeface that contains a character that works well with the theme of the

bulleted list composition The illustration is an “All-Star Recipe,” so a bullet shaped

like a star is appropriate Microsoft’s Wingdings font is installed with every copy of

Windows, and it features some nice symbols: choose Wingdings from the Font

drop-down list in this example, and then click the Symbol drop-drop-down arrow, and locate a

good star shape

4. Click the Use Hanging Indent Style For Bulleted Lists check box to get a polished

look for the list

5. Increase the point size by dragging upward in the center of the spin box control for

Size

6. Most likely, the baseline of the enlarged symbol won’t look right compared with the

text in the list (it’ll be too high) Drag downward on the Baseline Shift spin box

control until the bullets look aligned

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