Working with Art Text

Art text in Swift Publisher is an object with special properties. In Swift Publisher you can operate with it as with an image, but the object contains the original text available for further modification.

For inserting art text into the Swift Publisher document, the Art Text application should be installed on your computer (Mac OS 10.4 or higher is required).
The Art Text application creates an image from ordinary text, applies effects and transformations and then sends the image to Swift Publisher.
Swift Publisher uses the Link Back technology to send art text back into Art Text for modification.

To insert art text:

1. Choose the Insert > Image > Art Text menu command. Or click the Art Text icon in the toolbar.
2. Type your text and change effect parameters in the Art Text application.
3. Click the Send... button in Art Text to send the modified image to Swift Publisher.

To modify art text:

1. Select art text and choose the Edit in Art Text command in the Edit menu.
2. Make necessary changes in the Art Text application.
3. Click the Send... button in Art Text to send the modified image to Swift Publisher.

To remove art text, select it and press the Delete key.

Note:

1. Images made in the Art Text application can be sent back to Art Text only.
2. After some modifications (like Core Image filters in Image Tricks plug-in) art text can turn to an ordinary image that cannot be changed in Art Text any more.

To learn more about Link Back, see the official web site:
http://www.linkbackproject.org/

To learn more about Art Text, see the product web page:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/arttext/