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Adjusting character size and positioning<br />
The Character tab provides a<br />
selection of tools for fine-tuning your<br />
text. Text point size, letter spacing<br />
(tracking), vertical character<br />
positioning (advance), leading and<br />
text width controls are hosted to fine<br />
tune your selected text's size and<br />
position.<br />
Drawing and editing lines and shapes<br />
Painting and Drawing 93<br />
For drawing and editing lines and shapes, the Tools toolbar includes the following<br />
drawing tool flyouts:<br />
Overview<br />
The QuickShape Tools flyout featuring an assortment of tools for creating<br />
rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and other shapes.<br />
The Outline Tools flyout features various outlines—straight lines, plus<br />
freehand and curved outlines for variety.<br />
Each of the drawing tools has its own creation and editing rules, as detailed below.<br />
Before continuing, let's cover some things that all shape objects have in common:<br />
• Shapes have outlines known as paths. In a nutshell, shapes as discussed here<br />
are filled outlines (i.e., they’re closed, with colour inside). Later, we’ll cover<br />
unfilled outlines (paths) separately, and consider their special properties. The<br />
various drawing tools are all path-drawing tools, applicable to both the filled<br />
and unfilled kind of outline.<br />
• Unlike painted regions you create on raster (bitmap) layers, both QuickShapes<br />
and outline shapes are vector objects that occupy special shape layers, marked<br />
with an symbol on the Layers tab. Each shape layer includes a path<br />
thumbnail representing the shape(s) on that layer.
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