Adobe Illustrator writing tools

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Illustrator II

You can write text in several ways in Illustrator, including the newest version CS5:

You can choose the Text Tool, click on stage and write:

Or choose the Text Tool, draw a box on stage and write inside it:

When the Text Tool is chosen you can put in the cursor somewhere in the text and write.

When the Selection Tool is chosen you can transform the text by rotating or scaling it.

                                                                              

 

You can also change the text using the transform Tools: Scale Tool, Rotate Tool, Reflect Tool

Shear Tool, Free transform Tool.

The Text Tool has 6 different settings:

Type Tool:

Vertical Type tool:

Area Type Tool:

Vertical Area Type Tool:

 

Type on a Path Tool:

Vertical Type on a Path Tool:

You can change Fontfamily and Fontstyle with the Character panel:

Windows > Type > Character

You can change the paragraph formatting using the Paragraph Panel:

Windows > Type > Paragraph

You can import an external text into Illustrator using: File > Place

The text will appear as Area Type text.

You can format the text into columns choosing:

Type > Area Type Options

 

The Rows & Columns panel can change the number of rows and columns and the size of the textbox.

 

You can wrap a text around an object by selecting both object and text object and text (the object has to be on top of the text) and then choose:

Object > Text Wrap > Make Text Wrap

 

You can also use a text mesh: It puts a text superimposed on a picture, then select both to text and pictures and then you choose:

Object > Clipping Mask > Make

 

Compound Paths

You can cut a hole in an object with another object:

 

By selecting both objects and then choose:

Object > Compound Path > Make

 To separate the two objects again: Object > Compound Path > Release.