Horizontal and vertical text scaling Canvas provides independent control of horizontal and vertical scal- ing of text. Using this feature, you can stretch characters to create extended and condensed letterforms. To scale an entire text object, you can also select the text object, press Command (Mac) or Alt (Windows), and drag a selection handle. Depending on the direction of the drag, Canvas scales text horizon- tally or vertically. To scale characters using the Type palette 1 Depending on how you want scaling to apply, do one of the following: •   To change existing text, select the text or text objects. •   To set the scale of text before you type it, place the insertion point where you want the scale to change. •   To apply scaling to the preset format, deselect all objects. 2 If necessary, open the Type palette by choosing Text > Type, and click the Character tab. 3 To specify the vertical and horizontal scale of characters, enter percentages in the Scale boxes. To scale proportionately, enter the same percentage in both boxes. Canvas applies these percentages to the point size displayed in the Size box. 4 Click Apply to implement the scaling settings. Canvas doesn’t limit the percentage you can scale characters; how- ever, extremely high and low settings can distort some fonts and make them unreadable. In addition, scaling requires significant Horizontally scaled 200% Horizontally scaled 50% Vertically scaled 200% Vertically scaled 50%
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