Text editor options in Engrave mode

The text editor allows you to add and format text. In Engrave mode, it opens when you enter or edit text in a text frame.

Text editor in Engrave mode

The text editor provides the following options:

  1. Character Style

    Allows you to change the appearance of selected text within paragraphs. This overrides the paragraph style applied to the corresponding paragraph.

  2. Paragraph Style

    Allows you to change the paragraph style applied to the selected paragraphs. Depending on the paragraph style, this can change the appearance, formatting, and alignment of the text.

  3. Font

    Allows you to change the font family of selected text.

  4. Font Style

    Allows you to change the font style of selected text.

    Note

    • Depending on the font selected, some font styles might not be available.

    • You can also change the font style using the following standard key commands:

      • Ctrl/Cmd-B for bold

      • Ctrl/Cmd-I for italic

  5. Font Size

    Allows you to change the size of selected text.

    Tip

    You can also change the font size using the following key commands:

    • Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-. to increase the font size

    • Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-, to decrease the font size

  6. Font Stretch

    Allows you to make selected text wider or narrower.

  7. Baseline Shift

    Allows you to shift the baseline of selected text gradually up or down.

  8. Letter Spacing

    Allows you to increase/decrease the space between the characters of selected text.

  9. Word Spacing

    Allows you to increase/decrease the space between the words of selected text.

  10. Alignment

    Allows you to choose one of the following alignments for the selected paragraphs relative to frame edges:

    • Align Left

    • Align Center

    • Align Right

    • Justify

  11. Line Types

    Allows you to show any of the following types of lines, in any combination, on selected text:

    • Underline

    • Overline

    • Strikethrough

    Tip

    You can also make selected text underlined by pressing Ctrl/Cmd-U.

  12. Script Types

    Allows you to position selected text in one of the following positions relative to the text on the baseline:

    • Superscript

    • Subscript

  13. Foreground Color

    Allows you to change the color of selected text.

  14. Background Color

    Allows you to change the background color of selected text.

Note

If you override the paragraph style of text in an individual text item or text frame, such as by making text bold, any changes you later make to corresponding parameters of the paragraph style are not applied to the overridden text. However, font size overrides are combined with the font size in the paragraph style.