Create and define a new text style

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To create a new textile. Click new to open the new textile dialogue.

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The program displays a default style name

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but you can enter any name you want.

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Style names can be up to 256 characters,

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create a new textile called labels

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and then click OK.

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That style is immediately added to the style list and becomes the current style.

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You can now change any of the properties associated with the textile.

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The first thing you should do is specify the font

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in the font group box.

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Expand the font name,

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drop down to display a list of all the fonts available on your computer

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icons indicate whether each font is a windows true

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type font or a compiled shape based font,

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true type fonts have att icon adjacent to their name

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and are the same fonts used in other Windows programs

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compiled shape based fonts appear with a caliper

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icon and can only be used in drawings.

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Select the simplex dot shx

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font,

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you can type the first few letters of the font name

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to jump directly to it in the list.

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Once you choose the font, you see a preview image,

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when you select a shape based font.

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The font style drop down is not available because

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shape based fonts do not have separate style controls.

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Like most true type fonts

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in the size group box, you can specify the height

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but typically you will leave the set to zero.

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If you specify a height as part of the textile,

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it becomes part of the style definition

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and the program will not prompt you for the text.

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He when you place text that uses that style,

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if you leave this value set to zero, however,

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then the program will prompt you for the text type.

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Whenever you create text using this style

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in the size group box,

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you can also determine whether the textile will be annotative or not.

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If you select the annotative check box,

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then the text will always be the height you specify

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regardless of the scale and will update automatically

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whenever the annotation scale or viewport scale changes

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text that is not annotative will not automatically adjust to scale changes.

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Annotative textiles appear in the styles list

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and in the textile gallery with a special

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annotative symbol adjacent to the style name,

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making it easy to identify annotative.

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Textiles.

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In the effects group box,

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you can choose other effects such as making the text upside down,

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backwards or vertical

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change the width factor

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or specify an oblique angle such as negative 30 degrees to make

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the text look like it was created by a left handed person.

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When you make any of these changes,

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you immediately see the results in the preview panel.

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When you are satisfied with the appearance of the new textile, click apply,

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you can then create another textile. If you wish

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when you are done, click close to close the textile dialogue.

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If the program displays a dialogue informing you that the current style

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has changed and asking if you want to save your changes.

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Click yes.

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Since you have not yet used the new style, the drawing does not change.

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But if you change the textile associated with any existing text,

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that text will immediately change to reflect the new style.

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For example, select the text that says unexcavated

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on the annotate ribbon in the text panel,

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you can see that this text was created using the standard textile.

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When you expand the textile drop down and select labels

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the appearance of the text,

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you select it immediately updates because it now uses the label style

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press escape to deselect that text.