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There are Collections of fonts (like folders in the finder), inside which are font Families, inside which are Typefaces. An example of this in the real world would be All Fonts ▸ American Typewriter ▸ Bold. Collections can be handy if you find yourself often using the same few fonts. You can create your own collections, or use the ones Apple has provided. The Fun collection includes some excellent fonts for parties and cards. If you would like to add a font to the collection, simply drag it in. Adding a deleting collections is controlled by the plus and minus buttons below the collections.
Feel free to play with these properties if you're not familiar with them. In particular, with some text selected, choose Underline. Notice that rather than underlining the text, VoodooPad instead displays this panel:
The reason for this preference is that VoodooPad uses both underlining and text color to indicate links. It can be difficult to determine which underlined words really represent links if non-link words and phrases are also underlined and/or colored. This can be changed, but don't let underlining trick you if you do.
These colors can also be stored by dragging the color from that same big bar down onto the little grid below. Keeping a swatch library can save you time later if you consistently use the same colors in everything. Any color swatch that you drag down into this section can be accessed from most other applications on your mac. If you have a green you use on all of your stationary, you can store it and use it in VoodooPad, Keynote, Pages, Mail, iWeb, etc.
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There are Collections of fonts (like folders in the finder), inside which are font Families, inside which are Typefaces. An example of this in the real world would be All Fonts > American Typewriter > Bold. Collections can be handy if you find yourself often using the same few fonts. You can create your own collections, or use the ones Apple has provided. The Fun collection includes some excellent fonts for parties and cards. If you would like to add a font to the collection, simply drag it in. Adding a deleting collections is controlled by the plus and minus buttons below the collections.
Feel free to play with these properties if you're not familiar with them. In particular, with some text selected, choose Underline. Notice that rather than underlining the text, VoodooPad instead displays this panel:
The reason for this preference is that VoodooPad uses both underlining and text color to indicate links. It can be difficult to determine which underlined words really represent links if non-link words and phrases are also underlined and/or colored. This can be changed, but don't let underlining trick you if you do.
These colors can also be stored by dragging the color from that same big bar down onto the little grid below. Keeping a swatch library can save you time later if you consistently use the same colors in everything. Any color swatch that you drag down into this section can be accessed from most other applications on your mac. If you have a green you use on all of your stationary, you can store it and use it in VoodooPad, Keynote, Pages, Mail, iWeb, etc.
Edited on 2008-11-03 15:50:37 by BradEllis
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To start messing around with fonts choose the menu item Format ▸ Font ▸ Show Fonts
Things like shadow, underline, color, and strikethrough are controlled by the buttons on the top of the window, as well as from the Format ▸ Font menu.
You might also want to try Format ▸ Font ▸ Show Highlight Colors instead. With a little bit of text selected, changing the color here will highlight that text.
The Colors Palette lets you pick, sample and store colors in a variety of ways. Generally the Color Palette will pop up just when you need it, but If you're having trouble finding it, you can pull it up if you go Format ▸ Font ▸ Show Colors or by typing (shift command C).
Back to VoodooPad ▸ Editing Text
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To start messing around with fonts choose the menu item Format->Font->Show Fonts
Things like shadow, underline, color, and strikethrough are controlled by the buttons on the top of the window, as well as from the Format->Font menu.
You might also want to try Format->Font->Show Highlight Colors instead. With a little bit of text selected, changing the color here will highlight that text.
The Colors Palette lets you pick, sample and store colors in a variety of ways. Generally the Color Palette will pop up just when you need it, but If you're having trouble finding it, you can pull it up if you go Format->Font->Show Colors or by typing (shift command C).
Back to VoodooPad -> Editing Text
Edited on 2008-04-01 15:57:36 by BradEllis
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Back to VoodooPad -> Editing Text
Edited on 2008-03-18 12:49:49 by BradEllis
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Colors and Fonts
Fonts Palette
To start messing around with fonts choose the menu item Format->Font->Show Fonts
The Fonts Palette packs a lot of punch for being so small. This little window controls everything that you could want to do with font. If you get confused about which button does what, hold your mouse over it for a second and it will display a tooltip about what its function is.
There are Collections of fonts (like folders in the finder), inside which are font Families, inside which are Typefaces. An example of this in the real world would be All Fonts > American Typewriter > Bold. Collections can be handy if you find yourself often using the same few fonts. You can create your own collections, or use the ones Apple has provided. The Fun collection includes some excellent fonts for parties and cards. If you would like to add a font to the collection, simply drag it in. Adding a deleting collections is controlled by the plus and minus buttons below the collections.
If you find yourself unable to find a font you know is on your computer, make sure you're selected on the All Fonts collection.
Size is controlled by the slider, list and box to the right of the window. You can enter in a value into the upper box, find a commonly used size in the list, or move the slider until you're happy.
There is also a search field at the bottom of the window. If you find that scrolling through all of your fonts takes longer than you want, simply type the name of the font into the search field and it will instantly pop up in the Family column.
Things like shadow, underline, color, and strikethrough are controlled by the buttons on the top of the window, as well as from the Format->Font menu.
Feel free to play with these properties if you're not familiar with them. In particular, with some text selected, choose Underline. Notice that rather than underlining the text, VoodooPad instead displays this panel:
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The reason for this preference is that VoodooPad uses both underlining and text color to indicate links. It can be difficult to determine which underlined words really represent links if non-link words and phrases are also underlined and/or colored. This can be changed, but don't let underlining trick you if you do.
You might also want to try Format->Font->Show Highlight Colors instead. With a little bit of text selected, changing the color here will highlight that text.
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Colors Palette
The Colors Palette lets you pick, sample and store colors in a variety of ways. Generally the Color Palette will pop up just when you need it, but If you're having trouble finding it, you can pull it up if you go Format->Font->Show Colors or by typing (shift command C).
Along the top of the window are different ways to pick colors, there are wheels, sliders, spectrums, and crayons to pick from. Messing around with the sliders is one way to get results. If you have a picture with the color you want in your document, click on the magnifying glass, put the crosshairs anywhere on the screen, and click once. This will set the new color to the one you just sampled.
When you've picked a color, it will show up in the big bar next to the magnifying glass. The current color in the image above is set to a nice mellow orange.
These colors can also be stored by dragging the color from that same big bar down onto the little grid below. Keeping a swatch library can save you time later if you consistently use the same colors in everything. Any color swatch that you drag down into this section can be accessed from most other applications on your mac. If you have a green you use on all of your stationary, you can store it and use it in VoodooPad, Keynote, Pages, Mail, iWeb, etc.
If you're looking to go further with the Color Palette, check out Waffle Software∞ as well as Lithoglyph∞ for awesome adds ons to help you pick the best colors. There are also some online color pickers designed to help you get amazing matching color palettes. Try checking out Adobe's Kuler∞.
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Fonts and Colors
Fonts
Triple click to select the first paragraph of the page. Now choose Format->Font->Strike Out. We can undo the strike outs by pressing Cmd-z or by choosing Format->Font->Strike Out again while the strike out text is still selected.Click on the Format menu item and drag to the Font item to see its submenu. Notice the things you can do directly from this menu:
• Bold, Italic, Strike Out, Underline to change font properties
• Bigger, Smaller to incrementally increase or decrease the selected text size
• Kern to spread letters apart or compress them horizontally
• Ligature to add ligatures used in your font
• Baseline to raise or lower the baseline of selected text
…and so forth.
Feel free to play with these properties if you're not familiar with them. In particular, with some text selected, choose Underline. Notice that rather than underlining the text, VoodooPad instead displays this panel:
The reason for this preference is that VoodooPad uses both underlining and text color to indicate links. It can be difficult to determine which underlined words really represent links if non-link words and phrases are also underlined and/or colored. Use the application's Preferences panel to change from the default with care.
With the first paragraph still selected, choose Format->Font->Show Fonts to bring up the Font pallette. This allows us to choose a new font for the selected text, change it's size and many other of it's properties.
To create the perception of lifting some text off the page, for instance, try clicking on the rectangle centered directly under the "Font" title of the Font pallette. To confirm that you've selected the correct rectangle, just hold the mouse pointer on the rectangle for a few moments until a tool tip pops up indicating that this is the Text Shadow rectangle. If it says something else, try again.
With the first paragraph selected when this rectangle is activated, the text in the paragraph will display shadows for each character. Directly to the right of the rectangle are three sliders, slide the first about 2/3 of the way towards the right, slide the second about 1/8 from the left and slide the third about 3/4 of the way toward the right.
As you do this, notice how the text seems to lift off the page. You can also click and drag the small indentation in the circle to the right of the third slider. As you do this, you'll see an apparent shift of the virtual light illuminating the text to cast the shadows at a changing angle.
Colors
You can also choose Format->Font->Show Colors to display the color pallette. However, like underlining, by default you will not be able to change text colors. Choose VoodooPad->Preferences… and select the Appearance tab to change this default behavior.Text Alignment and the Ruler
In our overview, we touched on the text ruler. Triple click on the third paragraph to select the entire paragraph and bring the ruler up again by choosing Format->Text->Show Ruler.
The text ruler is primarily used for setting page margins, paragraph indentation, tabs and alignment or justification. It also has pop-down menus for selecting line spacing, bullet point styles and an alternate means of selecting font properties.
With the third paragraph still selected, click on the third tab in the ruler tab bar that looks like this:
This should justify (or straighten the edges of) the paragraph on both sides. Now select the document title, "You put your brain in it." and click the far left of the four tabs to left justify the title.
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Fonts and Colors
Fonts
Triple click to select the first paragraph of the page. Now choose Format->Font->Strike Out. We can undo the strike outs by pressing Cmd-z or by choosing Format->Font->Strike Out again while the strike out text is still selected.
Click on the Format menu item and drag to the Font item to see its submenu. Notice the things you can do directly from this menu:
• Bold, Italic, Strike Out, Underline to change font properties
• Bigger, Smaller to incrementally increase or decrease the selected text size
• Kern to spread letters apart or compress them horizontally
• Ligature to add ligatures used in your font
• Baseline to raise or lower the baseline of selected text
…and so forth.
Feel free to play with these properties if you're not familiar with them. In particular, with some text selected, choose Underline. Notice that rather than underlining the text, VoodooPad instead displays this panel:
The reason for this preference is that VoodooPad uses both underlining and text color to indicate links. It can be difficult to determine which underlined words really represent links if non-link words and phrases are also underlined and/or colored. Use the application's Preferences panel to change from the default with care.
With the first paragraph still selected, choose Format->Font->Show Fonts to bring up the Font pallette. This allows us to choose a new font for the selected text, change it's size and many other of it's properties.
To create the perception of lifting some text off the page, for instance, try clicking on the rectangle centered directly under the "Font" title of the Font pallette. To confirm that you've selected the correct rectangle, just hold the mouse pointer on the rectangle for a few moments until a tool tip pops up indicating that this is the Text Shadow rectangle. If it says something else, try again.
With the first paragraph selected when this rectangle is activated, the text in the paragraph will display shadows for each character. Directly to the right of the rectangle are three sliders, slide the first about 2/3 of the way towards the right, slide the second about 1/8 from the left and slide the third about 3/4 of the way toward the right.
As you do this, notice how the text seems to lift off the page. You can also click and drag the small indentation in the circle to the right of the third slider. As you do this, you'll see an apparent shift of the virtual light illuminating the text to cast the shadows at a changing angle.
Colors
You can also choose Format->Font->Show Colors to display the color pallette. However, like underlining, by default you will not be able to change text colors. Choose VoodooPad->Preferences… and select the Appearance tab to change this default behavior.
Text Alignment and the Ruler
In our overview, we touched on the text ruler. Triple click on the third paragraph to select the entire paragraph and bring the ruler up again by choosing Format->Text->Show Ruler.
The text ruler is primarily used for setting page margins, paragraph indentation, tabs and alignment or justification. It also has pop-down menus for selecting line spacing, bullet point styles and an alternate means of selecting font properties.
With the third paragraph still selected, click on the third tab in the ruler tab bar that looks like this:
This should justify (or straighten the edges of) the paragraph on both sides. Now select the document title, "You put your brain in it." and click the far left of the four tabs to left justify the title.