To Edit the Text

Either:

• Select by marking the characters you want to edit in the Viewer.

Or:

• Select the characters in the Edit panel.

Or:

• Select the entire text by clicking the Select All button in the Edit panel.

• Select the font, size, style, fill color, and outline color using the controls at the top of the Edit panel.

To Specify Text Alignment

Click the appropriate button to the top right of the Edit panel.

To Create Outlined Characters

1. Select the Outline option.

2. Choose the stroke width from the Stroke Width pop-up menu. The character outlines are drawn with the specified stroke width in the fill/outline color.

You can specify the fill and keyline colors individually for each character in a text item. Alternatively selecting Uniform Color makes all the letters have the same color. When Uniform Color is selected the text color can be animated.

To Add a Keyline around Characters

1. Choose the keyline width from the Keyline Width pop-up menu.

2. Select the characters you want to edit in the Viewer, or on the Edit panel, and click the keyline color box to specify the keyline color for the selected characters.

With filled characters the keyline is drawn as an outline around the characters:

With outlined characters the keyline is drawn as a double line around the outlines.