type tools let you enter text directly on-screen. With these new tools, text objects can be created with an almost unlimited number of characters. Type can be imported in several formats and you can also combine any mixture of type faces, sizes, styles, and colors in a text object. The type tools let you control tracking, kerning, word and letter spacing, horizontal scaling of characters, vertical shift for superscripts and subscripts, justification and hyphenation. Type can be placed on a curve and used to fill irregularly shaped objects.
The program has the ability to flow type from one column or shape to another and wrap type automatically around objects in its path. “With the addition of the Adobe Type Manager software, which is included with the Adobe Illustrator program,
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you can create editable outlines from typefaces.” (Adobe Type Manager 2.0 is bundled with Illustrator 3.0.) Type Manager not only smooths screen fonts, but 2.0 helps with ImageWriter output.
New Tools
There is a whole collection of new tools that appear as pop-out extensions when you point to a tool and hold down the mouse button. There are two additional selection tools, the direct-selection tool for selecting anchor points or objects without ungrouping them, and the object selection tool which lets you automatically select an entire path when you select any part of it
(you do not need to hold down the Option key). There are