Questions tagged [text]
Questions that refer to manipulating a text layout, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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Superscript text in GIMP
How can I add superscript text to text in GIMP? I am looking for other solutions than adding another textbox with just smaller font size...
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How to change PDF text encoding ? (ANSI to UNICODE)
I have this problem with a PDF I am trying to copy the text from... I have this text in a pdf and I need to insert in into a HTML page, the problem is that when I copy the text some of the letters(the ...
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How to write text from right-to-left in Central Asian Languages group fonts
Can anyone help me with this problem:
I am having problem with Right-to-Left writing with the Old Turkic font.
Turkish is written with extended Latin letters left-to-right but:
Old Turkic is a Turkish ...
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Incorrect usage of hyphens in the form “Artist - Song Name”
I’ve read lots of guides about when to use hyphens (-) and when to use dashes (–). The usage is clear to me. And I want to stress a particular case where the hyphen is used incorrectly: “Artist - Song ...
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Is it good practice to add additional space before a punctuation mark after emphazised text?
Is there a typographic convention or practice about placing punctuation marks after emphazised text?
I ran across this example on a website today that adds an additional space after emphazised text ...
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What characteristics are common to well-designed and well-formatted textbooks?
I'm looking for inspiration on how to make my book appear more professional with regard to typesetting and page design/layout (although of course these alone don't make it more professional). I found ...
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What is the rule of thumb for a rag being acceptable
I have some copy that I am setting as ragged-right, but I am trying to set it in the cleanest possible way without egregious rags while also avoiding creating orphans. With the current text, it seems ...
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How to type right to left in Illustrator?
Im typing an Indo Aryan language which is written right to left, but I couldn't find a way to type it correctly in Illustrator. The Language under Character does not work. The Adobe Single-Line and ...
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Text effect on any background color [duplicate]
I want to display a text over a video. However, the video may include any color from white to black. What is the best text effect (color/stroke/shadow/glow ... etc) that can be applied on the text so ...
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In InDesign is it possible to find and change uppercase to lowercase?
Is there a way to find and change uppercase letters of a certain character style and change them to lowercase within InDesign?
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How to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?
Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so ...
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How do I convert images of a page of text to pure Black & White and sharpen the text?
I'm a research student working with large numbers of archival documents. For speed when at the archives, I photograph the documents (with a decent but not fancy digital camera), producing colour .jpg ...
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Constant text revisions - how to stop the madness?
I've looked thru the archives and haven't seen this specific issue, so here goes:
I've worked as in-house and freelance graphic designer, and my #1 head-to-the-desk cause is when the client gives me ...
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Design rule toward Alignment? Is this important?
Hello all the pro designers out there,
I have a question about text alignment.
This is what I am designing right now. The font is Brandon Grotesque.
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I have noticed that when I use letter "L", ...
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How to change color of multiple text objects at once?
How to change color of multiple text or vector objects at once in Adobe Photoshop?
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Removing text from an image in a rough but quick fashion
I often find myself in a situation where I'd like to check how an image would look like without the text embedded in it. I'm not interested in a neat result, just something rough but super quick and ...
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Photoshop: convert all caps text to lowercase
I have a PSD file with a large block of text set in uppercase. Is there a way to convert selected text to lowercase? I've tried everything in the character panel, but nothing will change it to ...
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GIMP/Inkscape Text Art from Image: Is there an easy way?
Hello All,
is there an easy way to grab an image (or a shape I cut out with GIMP Free Select tool) and then just write text over it and let it fill the shape? I have tried searching for it but no ...
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Is using a portion of quoted text on a poster a derivative work?
I made a poster, for my own use, that uses a few lines from a well known song and I liked the outcome so much I'd like to share it. However, I'm not sure if taking part of a copyrighted material and ...
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advise on "copying" text effect from existing logo
I'm trying to copy the text effect on an existing logo to no avail.
I have been using Illustrator to work on the logo but cannot seem to get it workout the way I want.
It's not that I want to copy ...
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How to communicate a 3 step process clearly and concisely?
I have the following section in our website, and now when I look at it, I feel it looks unprofessional, and a bit unclear.
I tried to break the "How It Works" section into 3, with the second section ...
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Photoshop - Easier way to add date suffix, st, nd, th rd
In Microsoft Word, you type
27th and hit a space the th date suffix will resize and go to top margin with a date suffix format.
In Adobe Photoshop I have to often make a new layer for adding date th,...
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Breaking long blocks of text with images — a rule or a myth?
I once heard that in web pages with long text blocks, one needs to break those blocks with illustrations, so that the potential reader isn't intimidated by the large amount of text. The rule, so I ...
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How to import a CSV list of names into Illustrator artwork?
I print decals. A lot of them. Especially this time of year (summer sports, back-to-school, etc.)
It'd make my job a lot easier if I could import a CSV list of names into two predefined artboards, ...
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Restore Photoshop Text Layer Name Auto-Updating?
Text layers in Photoshop will auto-update the layer name with the text content of the layer unless you manually edit the layer name in the layers panel. Then it retains the manually entered layer name....
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Applying a gradient to bloat/blur effects in Photoshop
I am trying to recreate the effect demonstrated on the logo for the Tate galleries in the UK with Photoshop.
Here are some of the logo variants:
Using quick masking I can emulate the gradient ...
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Text wrapping fill-last-line-first
I have a peculiar design for a web page that I have to implement from an already made design, and some of the text wrappings are filled bottom-up (in my case it's for bottom-left aligned thin text ...
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Quick copy text in Photoshop Text layer
Is there a way to copy all the text within a Photoshop text layer without having to "open" the layer.
I'm hoping there's a way that I can just select the layer and then have some shortcut that copies ...
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Illustrator 3D extrude on text misses faces
I am attempting to create 3D text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 in OSX using the 3D Extrude and Bevel effect.
The problem is that if I only rotate the text on one axis, in this case the X axis and then ...
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Placing text inside shapes
This may be a silly question but...
Im pretty new to Illustrator and I have the number 12 and i need to type text inside each number without it going outside the lines of the numbers. How do I do ...
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How long of a name do you budget for in a template?
I'm designing a name overlay for a series of videos and I'm curious how long of a name I should budget for without knowing what ones might come my way.
As it's for a video it should be reasonably ...
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Sketch: As a symbol, adding text will resize the text block height
I have an article block as a symbol in sketch. It contains an image, headline and paragraph. When using the symbol in my canvas, I'd like to change the title, but once it drops to two lines, it will ...
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Does using shades of off-grey for text improve legibility compared to pure grey?
Most sites use some shade of grey for the color of their text.
I was reading an article which suggested using a grey (#373d3f) with the rgb values of (55, 61, 63).
My question is whether doing ...
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How to paste Chinese text into Illustrator?
I have a frustrating problem with Chinese text in Illustrator. I am updating some graphics by changing English text to Chinese. I have been provided with Chinese translations in a Word document which ...
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How to straighten round-edge document or book page automatically?
I have hundreds of documents, which are rounded: the document was not straight when it was photographed, and the image is curved or rounded in various ways.
I'm looking for an automatic or semi-...
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How to combine (partially scanned handwritten) comments from multiple sources into the original pdf?
When asking colleagues for feedback on a PDF, some of them prefer adding hand-written comments on its printout instead of using the pdf comment functions of acrobat/reader, and send me the scan ...
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What is the best way to make text fit inside a circular shape?
I'd like to create something like this:
(see design peg)
Ideally, the text should be editable so that any letter combination can be used.
I know I can do it quickly (and keep the text editable) by ...
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Adobe Illustrator - How do I separate the dot from a lower case "i"?
How do I separate the dot from a lower case "i" so I can re-color just the dot?
I want the straight part black and the dot red.
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Illustrator - Removing the blank space below a letter
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I am trying to create a logo in png format with the size of 512x512. The shape is round, so i need the edges of the background to be transparent.
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The letter has some weird space ...
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Why can't I resize my text box in Illustrator CS6?
The resize tool just don't appear. When I try to resize, it only turn out that I only move my text box. Is there something wrong with my software?
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How to censor individual words in a long text paragraph without catching attention to them?
I have a video presentation slide with one long text paragraph of ~30 lines of purely black text on purely white background (well, with some font smoothing) that I am using in a presentation video. ...
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Text I made in Photoshop becomes blurry when exported as JPG or PNG
I made an image with Photoshop. The text looks perfect in Photoshop but when I register it in .jpg or .png, the text looks blurry.
I tried everything, but nothing works. The font is Truetype, the ...
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Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of One Character in AI
In Photoshop, I've got in my character menu Horizontal and Vertical scaling. In Illustrator I don't have it, but I need it. I know I can stretch the entire text-box in AI to simulate character scaling,...
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Can't bring element to front
In one page of my inDesign document, there's a pink rectangle. I created a text element and moved this element on this rectangle.
No matter how hard I try to send this pink rectangle to back (...
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How can I get Farsi/Arabic text to render correctly in Photoshop?
I downloaded a number of Farsi fonts and they render individual characters fine but but don't join multiple characters together at all. Does anyone know how to get whole words to appear correctly? If ...
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How do you a get graphic both in front of and behind text like this?
I hope someone can help me. I know about Object, Arrange and text wrap and all that, but I still cannot figure out how to get an object to go both in front of and behind text at the same time as in ...
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Sketch: vertical text alignment
When working with Adobe InDesign it is possible to select how text will be aligned vertically:
I am especially interested in having the text vertically centred and was wondering if this is also ...
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What is the difference between "wrapped" text and "constrained" text?
This question is based on the comments on this answer to another question.
What is the technical difference between text that is "wrapped around" a shape as opposed to text that is "constrained by" a ...
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Quotable reference to support my assertion that black text on a grey background is not a "highlight"
I need some graphic design advice on finding a quotable piece of information regarding the use of "highlighting" text on signage, which I hope you can help me with.
I'm in a dispute with my local ...
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How can I thread text with offset headers?
I would like to thread a sequence of text through a number of pages. My requirement is that the body text always starts on the same line, and if there is a header, it always sits above this point. ...
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