Character Styles dialog

In the Character Styles dialog, you can change character styles and create new styles. You can later apply character styles to individual letters or words in different places in your project by choosing them in the text editor.

For example, you can create a custom character style with wide letter spacing for specific words and then apply that character style to selected words that you want to have wider letter spacing. Unlike paragraph styles, character styles do not have to apply to whole text frames or text objects.

  • You can open the Character Styles dialog in Engrave mode by choosing Engrave > Character Styles.

Figure: Character Styles dialog

The Paragraph Styles dialog contains the following sections and options:

  1. List of character styles currently available.

  2. Name

    Allows you to enter a name for new character styles or edit the name of existing paragraph styles.

  3. Character style options

    Allow you to change parameters of the character style, such as changing the font, making the font bold, changing the size of the font, and changing the letter or word spacing. You can also make the font in paragraph styles appear underlined or overlined, and change the vertical alignment of characters.

  4. Color options

    Allow you to change the foreground and background colors of the character style.

  5. Controls

    Allow you to make changes to the collection of character styles. The following controls are available:

    • New

      Allows you to create a new character style with default values.

    • New from Selection

      Creates a new style based on the selected one. Initially no values are overridden but you can change options for your new style.

    • Save as Default

      Copies the selected style to your library so that it is available in other projects.

    • Revert to Factory

      Allows you to undo your local changes to predefined character styles and revert the style to its original settings.

    • Delete

      Deletes the selected style.

      Note

      You cannot delete predefined character styles or any character style that is currently used in your project.