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Formatting characters

Once you have created text cast members for your movie, you can format them in a variety of ways: you can set the font, style, size, line spacing, and color. The following procedure uses the Font dialog box, but many of the same options are available in the Text Inspector and the Text window.

To format characters:

1 | Double-click inside a text sprite.
2 | Drag to select the text you want to format.
3 | Choose Modify > Font to open the Font dialog box.
4 | Choose from the following options in the Font dialog box:
| To specify the font, choose a font from the pop-up menu. Be sure to use embedded fonts for movies you intend to distribute (see Embedding fonts in movies).
| To use bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, or strikeout for text, click the appropriate box.
| To change the point size of text, increase or decrease the size with the Size option.
| To change the distance between lines of text, increase or decrease the spacing with the Spacing option.
| To specify kerning between selected characters, use the Kerning option to specify the number of points. This setting supplements the standard kerning applied to the entire cast member in the Text Cast Member Properties dialog box. See About kerning.
| To change the text color, click the color box and choose a color from the Color menu.