From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Working with point type - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Working with point type
- [Instructor] Alright, now I'll show you how to create point type, which is type that's aligned to a specific point. And the great thing about point type is it doesn't require a frame the way area type does, which makes it ideal for creating big display text. And let me show you what that looks like. I'll go ahead and press Control+0 or Command+0 on the Mac in order to zoom out and center my zoom. And now I'll select this text in the top-right corner, and I'll go ahead and zoom in by pressing Control + or Command + on the Mac. Alright, now I want you to notice that this text is surrounded by a frame, but it's not the same kind of frame. It's just a standard bounding box. So notice, if I drag one of the corner handles here, then instead of changing the line wrap, I actually stretched the text, which is not what I want. So I'll go ahead and press Control+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac to undo that change. All right, now I want…
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