with text, which will wrap at the boundaries. The paths can be irregular in shape and can be linked. There are, however, no spell check or search-and-replace functions (large blocks of text should be prepared elsewhere and imported). Tracking and kerning are available along with direct width controls.
Enhanced Typographic Tools
Personal Publishing says “The program’s most wide-ranging improvements come in the area of type handling.” and Tinkel of Step-by-Step says “Illustrator 3 has most of the typographic bells and whistles of PageMaker, DesignStudio and QuarkXPress and then some.” Tinkel rates the “hung punctuation” as the greatest new addition to the typographic tools. From the professional level, I am sure she is right. This is the ability to set centered headlines
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with hanging punctuation (not calculated when centering). Text on a path is a feature that a sophisticated graphics program can’t live without. My personal opinion is that being able to work with text directly on the page without switching back and forth between the document and a dialog box and being able to see the results as you work is the greatest improvement here. Just draw a line or shape, choose the text-on-a-path cursor, click on the line and begin typing. Kerning and tracking controls adjust to
1/1000 in. All the standard type controls are available, including size, leading, alignment and spacing. You can move type above or below its baseline by specifying vertical shift. The