Editing Text Objects

Advanced Editing of Text Objects

When a Text object has been selected, you can edit the text in the Edit Object window.

  1. Basic Information

    Open this dialog box to edit basic information about the object.

  2. Size

    Enter the size of the text box.

    Note: A Text object cannot be smaller than its text.

  3. Preview Text

    Show/hide the text.

  4. Select font

    Select which font to use from the drop-down list.

    Note that the fonts that can be used are limited by the region of the system.

    Nintendo DSi System Regions Available Font
    Japan, North America, Europe, Australia Internal System Large Fonts
    Internal System Medium Fonts
    Internal System Small Fonts
    China Chinese Versions: Internal System Large Fonts
    Chinese Versions: Internal System Medium Fonts
    Chinese Versions: Internal System Small Fonts
    Korea Korean Versions: Internal System Large Fonts
    Korean Versions: Internal System Medium Fonts
    Korean Versions: Internal System Small Fonts

    Note that the Editor can display fonts for different countries together, but fonts that are not on the internal system will not be displayed properly on the actual system.

  5. Text input area

    Note: In addition to text input, the following features are available.

    ・ Changing the color of some of the text

    ・ Inserting image files into the text

    ・ Using extended characters

  6. Align the size to the string.

    Align the vertical size of the text object to the height of the string.

  7. Tracking

    Sets the line spacing and the character spacing between the characters being displayed.

    X corresponds to horizontal character spacing. Y corresponds to vertical line spacing.

  8. Horizontal Alignment

    Sets how the text is positioned horizontally for display.

  9. Vertical Alignment

    Sets how the text is positioned vertically for display.

  10. Line Alignment

    Justifies the lines of text.

  11. Text Color

    Sets the overall text color.

  12. Margins

    Sets the margins between the Text object's perimeter and the text.

  13. Other
    • Word-Wrapping Rules

      Enables or disables word-wrapping, breaking across lines, and hyphenation rules.

    • Page Sections

      Sets or clears the text box as being a section in the page.

  14. Extended User Information

    Sets page sections and other information.


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