On Sun, 12 May 2002 17:30:15 +0100, Terry Pinnell
>>>Try Vector text. Even text completely outside the image can be
>>>selected from the Layer Palette, then moved. To get vector text, just
>>>click the Vector radio button in the text box.
>>>In addition, you can freehand resize by dragging a corner handle or
>>>rotate by any angle by using the center rotate handle.
>>BTW, if you've never used vector text before, one very big difference
>>between vector and raster is that once raster is placed in the image,
>>it's just a painting. Vector retains all of the creation information,
>>until it's converted into painting.
>>This means you can select the text tool, position the cursor until it
>>shows an A in sq. brackets, click and go back into the text edit box
>>to correct the original text.
>>Also, as long as the text is vector, you can use the vector selection
>>tool to select it, Right click and have access to a list of nice
>>things to do the text... Properties is one I use often. Edit text,
>>etc. experiment.
>Thanks, that's looking good. Never really got the hang of Vector mode
>until now. It's handy! Takes a bit of skill to get the operation I'm
>after, but I guess that comes with practice. Is it normal to have to
>zoom in first so that you can accurately select stretch, move, edit,
>rotate, etc?
>Terry, West Sussex, UK
To tell the truth, I didn't think many people expanded the working
window larger than the image. That's the only way to show that cross
hatch area. In the past, dragging a selection off image was a
acceptable way to delete the dragged item.
If you have a wheel mouse, the wheel controls zoom, and it's a very
easy thing to zoom in and out. You may have noticed the zoom
operations tend to work with the window sizing to the image.
(Incidently, wheel mouse control is built into PSP, and you should set
the standard wheel operation off for the PSP program in the control
panel.)
But yes, you normally zoom in to get at the fine control.
Jaggiemeister Ron - PSP terrorist
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