Caption Items

These items display a text caption of your choice. Captions can contain text with multiple fonts, styles, sizes and colors.

Working with caption items:

¥ To create a caption, click the 'New Item' button in the 'Items' tab and choose 'Caption' from the popup menu, or choose 'New Caption' from the 'Items' menu, and enter the text you want to use as a caption.

¥ To change the font, style, size or color of text within a caption, select the text you want to change within the caption and use the controls in the 'Items' tab. If no text is selected, the entire caption is changed.

¥ To set the caption's background color, check the 'Filled' checkbox in the 'Items' tab, then click the color patch next to the checkbox to choose the fill color.

¥ To set the caption's shadow color, check the 'Shadow' checkbox in the 'Items' tab, then click the color patch next to the checkbox to choose the shadow color.

¥ To resize the caption, move the cursor over the caption's lower-right corner and drag the grow box which appears. The caption will automatically resize vertically to ensure every line of text is visible.

¥ To rotate the caption, move the cursor over the caption's lower-right corner, hold down the Command key, and drag the rotate box which appears. To rotate the caption in 15° steps, hold down the Shift key while rotating the caption.

¥ To skew the caption, move the cursor over the caption's lower-right corner, hold down the Option key, and drag the skew box which appears in the direction you want to skew the caption. To skew the caption in steps, hold down the Shift key while skewing the caption.

¥ To change the caption's alignment, click the left, center or right alignment buttons.

¥ To specify whether the caption is antialiased (smoothed), use the 'Antialias text' checkbox.

¥ To specify the translucency of the caption, use the 'Fade' slider. Translucency only affects the filled portion of the caption.