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Working with point text - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Working with point text
I've saved my progress as Point text headline.ai, found inside the 08_type folder. And just so that you know where we are going here, I am going to switch back to Final formatted limerick.ai, also found inside the 08_type folder. Notice that I have my guidelines visible. You can make yours visible as well by pressing Ctrl+Semicolon or Command+Semicolon on the Mac. If I click on this text at the top of the page here, Poem Written, Project Placed, notice that the headline is set in the font Trajan Pro Bold, and I'll show you how that work shortly. I've also set the byline in Adobe Caslon Italic. But what's more to the point is the headline is completely filling the width of my margin guide. It's even exceeding it slightly with that comma. Also notice that we've got a point at the beginning of the text. So this is point text, we've got a baseline for each line of text, and we have no text frame. Therefore, there will be no automatic text wrapping associated with this text, and that's the…
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Next-generation text1m 19s
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Making a margin guide5m 7s
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Offsetting flush-left text4m 47s
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Moving and duplicating guides6m 23s
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Placing and threading text6m 18s
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Selecting words and lines of text6m 35s
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Working with point text7m 10s
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Tips for previewing and assigning fonts4m 7s
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Incrementally adjusting type size5m 49s
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Leading a paragraph indent5m 6s
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Pair kerning and tracking7m 2s
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Laying down base formatting attributes4m 59s
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Hanging indent and paragraph spacing3m 52s
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Creating a paragraph style5m 8s
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Redefining paragraph styles6m 42s
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Using the Glyphs panel6m 41s
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Spell-checking text4m 24s
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The stuff Check Spelling doesn't catch3m 24s
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Copying and applying a graphic style4m 42s
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Selecting through text objects6m 59s
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Offset Path and Scribble effects5m 45s
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Updating a graphic style5m 43s
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Creating type on a path7m 26s
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Attaching type to a closed path6m 5s
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Adjusting baseline shift4m 18s
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Tracking and kerning border elements8m 21s
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Filling and duplicating a border3m 28s
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