This is the kind of capability found when a drawing application is used to design with text, compared to trying to "draw" with a word-processor.ĮazyDraw allows you to control painting order of the stroke (path or outline) relative to the fill (interior color) of any graphic. You can even add Arrow heads to the leaders. Add a tab leader, several formats provided (solid, dots, various dashed lines). The EazyDraw Tabs interface provides numeric or interactive on-screen setting of tab stops and their format. One menu command will set a solid background and with the text transparent to provide a punched out stencil look that allows background graphics or images to be seen through the individual text characters. The stylize menu has several options including the "Punch" capability. Text linking may be combined with text - flow - around. Use this for multi-column and multi-page story page layout. Live resize will push or pull text between all linked text boxes. Typesetting text flow across the two (or more) text boxes. Text is fully typeset respecting kerning, alignment and paragraph settings at any angle. Rotating text is done with one interactive editing handle. This is seen near the top of the drawing window in the screen shot - the smaller row of tool buttons and popup menus. Notice there is a traditional font menu to compliment the full font palette. These are available for quick use without a menu-walk or opening of a special palette. When text is selected the contextual attributes toolbar presents a convenient arrangement of the most commonly used text tools such a stepping font size, of setting alignment. Useful for Page Layout projects, automatically get the professional "magazine" typeset appearance. The paragraph align settings (left, right, center, or justify) have an option to flow text around other graphics. Notice the faint shadow near the bottom of the design page, this is a vector shadow which accepts a full Affine transform, just a couple of controls to flip and distort for the effect. And these convert to Bezier with no degradation of appearance. Independent setting of outline - stroke and fill color for any font face. Then adjust the color, transparency, blur, and offset of the shadow. EazyDraw doesn't even know that you obtained the shapes from a typeset font.Īdd soft drop shadows to text. The converted Bezier curves can be edited, they have stroke and fill, they will accept gradient fill and patterns, - no limitations. The designer started with the "7" glyph obtained directly from the font family character set. Notice the stylized "7" in the screen shot. Typeset text is precisely converted to fully editable individual Bezier curves. You can take advantage of this convergence of technology with one click on the convert menu. EazyDraw is a vector based drawing application with advanced Bezier curve editing. Your modern macOS uses Outline (also called Vector) fonts that are based on Bezier curves. The screen shot above shows the system font panel arranged to preview fonts, it is seen lower - center of the screen shot. The wide range of typesetting capabilities that are provided by macOS are seamlessly integrated into your EazyDraw App. EazyDraw is a native Mac application and has full access to all fonts that are available to your OS X system.
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