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Text Tools & Features
VinylMaster comes with a comprehensive suite of Text Tools and Features and has 5 types of standard text, as follows:
 
Artistic Text:   Suited to single words and short phrases that may include an effect
Paragraph Text:   Suited to larger blocks of formatted text (columns, tabs, justified etc.)
Vertical Text:   Suited to single words and short phrases in a vertical format
Arc Text:   Suited to single words and short paragraphs in a circular format
Text on Path:   Suited to single words and short paragraphs following an object's path
 
Text Examples   Text Menu

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Text Tools & Features
Each type of text comes with a large selection of powerful tools and features usually only found in programs such as Adobe's InDesign, CorelDRAW and Microsoft Word. Coupled with VinylMaster's large suite of effects and layout tools this means you can design and output an infinite range of professional decals, signs and posters etc. quickly and easily, outlined as follows:


• Working with Text
• Formatting Text
• Writing Tools
• Working with Artistic Text
• Working with Paragraph Text (Textboxes)
• Working with Vertical Text
• Working with Arc Text (Text on a Circle)
• Working with Text on a Path
VinylMaster makes it very easy to Work with Text by providing you with specialist tools for:

• Adding Text
• Selecting Fonts and Setting Text Size
• Inserting Symbols (Special Characters)
• Breaking (Splitting) Text
• Converting Text into another Type
• Toggling Horizontal Text to Vertical Text

For example, to insert a special character is just 2-Clicks, as shown on the right.

Insert Special Character Flyout
 
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VinylMaster makes it easy to Format Text by providing you with specialist tools to:

• Set Bold, Italic and Underline Styles
• Change Case
• Add a Pen Style (Stroke)
• Add a Fill
• Set Reverse Fill
• Insert Bullet Points
• Set Horizontal Alignment (Justification)
• Set Character Style, Sub and Super Script
• Apply Kerning
• Set Tracking
• Skew Text
• Adjust Line Spacing
• Adjust Word Spacing

Most of these tools are just a matter of 2-Clicks and have been designed to be easy to implement and understand.

 
 

 

Insert Bullets and Advanced Text Tools
VinylMaster comes with Writing Tools which are provided to assist you to:

• Find & Replace Text
• Find & Replace by Font or Font Style
• Spell Check
• View Text Statistics

These tools help you deal with and manage large amounts of text and to avoid making costly spelling mistakes.

On-Screen Spell Checking
VinylMaster makes it easy to Work with Artistic Text by providing you with specialist tools for:

• Adding and Selecting Artistic Text
• Set Text Size and Position
• Adjust Character and Line Spacing
• Set Uneven and Even Line Spacing

For example, you can easily set the line spacing for Artistic Text using the Line Space nodes, as shown on the right.

Easily Adjust Line Spacing
 
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VinylMaster makes it easy to Work with Paragraph Text (Textboxes) by providing you with specialist tools for:

• Adding and Selecting Paragraph Text
• Setting Textbox Size & Position
• Textboxes and Elastic mode
• Indents
• Columns
• Tabs (see below)
• Optimizing Paragraph Text
• Compatibility with .vjb (older VMP formats)
• Wrapping Paragraph Text around Objects

For example, you can easily set the type of tab you wish to use from the following selection of tabs in VinylMaster:

• Left tab
• Center tab
• Right tab
• Decimal tab
• Custom tab

As shown in the New York Style Pizza menu example  that is using a combination of tab types on the right.

Example of Tab types

Setting Tabs in VinylMaster is Easy!
 
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VinylMaster makes it easy to Work with Vertical Text by providing you with specialist tools for:

• Adding and Selecting Vertical Text
• Text Size and Position
• Character and Line Spacing
• Uneven and Even Line Spacing

For example, you can easily set the character spacing for Vertical Text using the Kerning nodes, as shown on the right.

Easily Adjust Character Spacing
VinylMaster makes it easy to Work with Arc Text by providing you with specialist tools to:

• Add and Select Arc Text
• Set Radius & Start Position
• Set the Text Flow
• Text Size and Position

For example, you can easily set whether the Text should flow above the Arc or below the Arc or Both, as shown on the right.

Easily Adjust Text Flow
VinylMaster makes it easy to Work with Text on Path by providing you with specialist tools for:

• Fitting Text to a Path
• Path Offset and Start Position
• Text Size and Position

For example, you can easily set the Text's Offset from the Path, as shown on the right.

Fit Text to any Path
 
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Loaded with  Tools & Features

  

Above is merely an outline of VinylMaster's tools with literally hundreds of tools like these at your disposal that will provide you with a serious advantage when it comes to designing, creating and outputting truly eye-popping signage no matter what industry you specialize in!

To see our detailed Feature List and a side-by-side Comparison of all versions of VinylMaster click: