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Working with point text

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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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