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The Layer Content window displays the content of the active layer. It lets you:
To open the Layer Content window, double-click the layer icon in the layer bar at the bottom of the main window.
The Text tab can be used as a simple text editor. You can type your text right here or paste text from other sources.
The alignment buttons affect the whole text.
The Font button opens the standard Font panel. You can change the font of the selected part of text or of the whole text.
Line spacing can be applied to selected text lines or to the whole text.
Kerning changes the distance between letters of the selected text.
To edit text as a vector image, click the Edit as Shape button. The program will convert the text to an image and open in the vector image editor.
Open the Shapes tab and click on a shape thumbnail.
The buttons and scroll bar at the bottom change the thumbnail size.
To modify a shape in the vector image editor, double-click on it.
Open the Icons tab, select a category in the drop-down menu and click on an icon thumbnail.
The buttons and scroll bar at the bottom change the thumbnail size.
To modify an icon in the vector image editor, double-click on it.
To choose an image you have previously created, open the Custom tab and click on an image.
To modify an image in the vector image editor, double-click on it.
Open the Finder tab, click the Open button and choose a folder containing images or an individual graphic file. Then click Open. Select an image in the Layer Content window. Previously selected folders are listed in the drop-down menu. You can choose one of the folders in the list instead of navigating to it by the Open button.
The buttons and scroll bar at the bottom change the thumbnail size.
Two other ways to open an image are either to drag and drop an image from Finder onto the canvas, or onto the layer icon. If the image you import is vector, these ways give different results. Dragging an image onto the layer icon is identical to selecting it in the Layer Content window. The imported image is converted in the raster format. When you drop an image onto the canvas it remains vector.
Once you select a layer created by merging other layers, the Layer Content window gives you an option to split the current layer into the original ones. Also you can open the current layer in the vector editor. The vector editor saves the modified shape to the Custom library. You cannot split such shape any more.
