
When you type text, the upper toolbar includes the usual paragraph
attributes: indents, first line, and tab stops.
You can change the style of all or part of the text. The Styles and
Formatting window also works here (select Format > Styles and
Formatting or press
F11
to launch), so you can create Graphics styles
that you can reuse for other text frames. Graphics styles affect all of
the text within a text frame. To style parts of the text, use direct
formating with the toolbar.
Text frames can also have fill colors, shadows, and other attributes,
just like any other Draw object. You can rotate the frame and write the
text at any angle. These options are available by right-clicking on the
object.
Use the Callout tool, located on the Drawing toolbar, to create callouts
(also known as captions or figure labels).
If you double-click on an object or press
F2
(or the Text icon in the
Drawing toolbar) when an object is selected, text is written in the
center of the object and remains within the object. Nearly any kind of
object contains such an additional text element. These texts have slight
differences to those in text frames concerning position and
hyphenation.
For more about text, see Chapter 2 (Drawing Basic Shapes) and
Chapter 10 (Advanced Draw Techniques) in the
Draw Guide
.
Gluepoints and connectors
All Draw objects have associated invisible
gluepoints
. Most objects
have four gluepoints, as shown in Figure 166.
Figure 166: Four gluepoints
Gluepoints are different from handles (the small blue or green squares
around an object). Use the handles to move or resize an object; use the
gluepoints to attach connectors to an object.
You can add more gluepoints, and customize gluepoints, using the
toolbar of the same name. Gluepoints become visible when you click
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