Chapter 42: Distorting and Warping Objects ................................................................................ 463
Distorting an object............................................................................................................................................463
Warping an object..............................................................................................................................................464
Chapter 43: Fitting Text to a Path.................................................................................................... 469
Working with the Fit Text to Path dialog box................................................................................................469
Selecting, reverse selecting, and deselecting text ..........................................................................................470
Positioning text along the path ........................................................................................................................471
Changing the spacing of text............................................................................................................................473
Changing the height of text ..............................................................................................................................474
Reversing the path.............................................................................................................................................475
Hiding the path..................................................................................................................................................475
Changing the angle of the text .........................................................................................................................476
Slanting the text..................................................................................................................................................477
Fitting shapes to a path .....................................................................................................................................478
Using text as a path............................................................................................................................................478
Magnifying text using tools..............................................................................................................................479
Chapter 44: Creating Special Effects............................................................................................... 481
Using the Effects dialog box.............................................................................................................................481
Using Special ......................................................................................................................................................483
Using Stripes.......................................................................................................................................................485
Using Layers.......................................................................................................................................................488
Using Overlap ....................................................................................................................................................492
Using Contour....................................................................................................................................................494
Using Effects Library.........................................................................................................................................494
Book Ten: Repeating Text and Objects .......................................................................................... 499
Chapter 45: Repeating Objects ⎯ Text or Shapes....................................................................... 501
Repeating in a line, matrix, or diagonal pattern............................................................................................501
Changing the spacing, size, and alignment for repeats................................................................................502
Chapter 46: Merging Text and Numbers ........................................................................................ 507
Repeating and merging text .............................................................................................................................507
Repeating text with AutoNumbers .................................................................................................................511
Merging text with AutoNumber......................................................................................................................514
Book Eleven: Managing, Converting, and Designing Fonts ....................................................... 515
Chapter 47: Managing Fonts............................................................................................................. 517
Exploring the Font Manager program ............................................................................................................517
Viewing Gerber Fonts in Font Manager .........................................................................................................520
Renaming a Gerber font style...........................................................................................................................522
Chapter 48: Viewing and Printing Installed Fonts ....................................................................... 527
Opening Font View............................................................................................................................................527
Viewing the list of installed fonts ....................................................................................................................527
Printing the installed fonts ...............................................................................................................................531
Locating and copying characters in Font View .............................................................................................535
Chapter 49: Converting TrueType Fonts to OMEGA-Compatible Fonts .................................. 539
Using Font Converter........................................................................................................................................539