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- Drawn fonts can be used for SMALL quantities of
- text that needs to be manipulated in unusual ways.
- E.g. you can draw the text at any angle and
- itilicise it to any degree. You can also change
- the line-colours, fill-colours and line-widths.
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- HINTS
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- Some of the fonts were drawn with a grid-lock, most
- are in centimeters, but some are in inches. If you
- switch on a grid-lock that matches the characters
- you will find it much easier to manipulate them.
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- Some fonts (e.g. Cyber, Homertn) draw very quickly,
- and others (e.g. Camelot, Script) draw very slowly.
- This is because DRAW can FILL an area quickly, but
- is comparatively slow at drawing thick lines. If you
- want to manipulate a lot of text it is not a good
- idea to use a slow font.
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- It is usually a good idea to select your letters
- and build up your text first, make your text into
- a group, and delete all the unused letters before
- starting to do any twisting, stretching or
- italicising.
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- To italicise a group of letters. Stretch them,
- rotate them through an angle of about 45 degrees,
- un-stretch them, and rotate them back.
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