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Hotfix ERA – User’s Manual
Text objects has an additional handle located on the left side, between the lower and middle
handles: The spacing handle. Dragging it you may proportionally scale the letters and words
spacing.
Handles on letters allow control of letter size and position in a
per-letter basis.
Dragging the handle near the letter baseline (A) moves the letter
horizontally; the middle handle (B) moves the letter vertically and
the corner handle (C) scales the letter.
The example, letter “S” was scaled up using the corner handle
and move a bit down with middle handle.
Text Transformations
In the previous section was presented a simple geometry edition tool that basically allows you
to scale and rotate texts. This section introduces tools that let you produce more flexible
geometry manipulation: the text transformations.
Transformation types
Design Era allows two basic types of text transformation:
Envelope Transformations: Are based on the distortion of the box that contains
the text. For example, bending the box containing the text produces an arc
layout. Characters are distorted according to the envelope distortion.
Line Transformations: Are based on the distortion of the line where characters lie.
For example, tipping the baseline produce a stair layout. Characters are not
distorted; just their position is modified.
In addition to this classification, Design Era organizes the transformation in two groups: Defaults
and Templates.
Default transformations are simple, basic transformations like
Rotation, Irregular, Arc (upper and lower) and Stair. Using the default
transformations you may build envelope and line distortions with any
shape.
Templates: Although using the default transformations you may
create transformations of any shape, the system includes a set of
pre-built shapes, so you don’t have to do it by yourself. They are
called Templates. Shapes like Bridge, Panoramic, etc. are included
within the templates.
Using Transformations
All transformations have a number of handles or grips to control them. Depending upon the
transformation, the system displays different handles that produce different effects. The
following examples describes how behave the handles of some default transformations.
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