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Changing Fonts

When you open the Text tool, the default font is loaded and ready to use. When you choose a different font, it becomes the current font and all text you type appears in the current font. If you edit text that has a different font, the current font is replaced by the font of the text at the cursor position. For example, if you are working with the Carta font and you edit text that uses Helvetica, Helvetica becomes the current font and all subsequent text you type appears in Helvetica.

The default font can be defined in the Tools & TL FX Preferences

To change the current font:

  1. In the Font section of the Text menu, click the Font field to open the Load Font file browser.

    (a) Font Type box  (b) Font Preview window  

  2. In the Font Type box, select a font type.

    TypeDescription
    Type 1A single-byte font type designed for Roman language fonts. Soft-links to the Adobe® Postscript® Type 1 fonts installed with the system or supplied by Autodesk are contained in /opt/Autodesk/font directory.
    CIDA multi-byte adaptation of Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts, well-suited to representing the large character sets of Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
    TrueTypeA widely used cross-platform font format.
    OpenType®A font developed by Adobe and Microsoft® that supports expanded character sets and layouts.
    AutoDisplays all font types, detecting the type automatically.

  3. In the file browser, navigate to the directory that contains the font to load.

  4. To preview a font, do one of the following:

    • Select a font to see it with sample text in the Font Preview window. The sample text can be the text you selected in the text layer, or text that you enter by clicking the Font Preview window to display the on-screen keyboard.
    • In the Proxies/Titles box, select Proxies to preview fonts. If no proxy appears, click Generate Proxies to generate a font proxy. This process may take a while, but once you create the proxies, the settings are retained. Each time you return to the font library, you can toggle between viewing font titles and font proxies by selecting Proxies or Titles.

  5. Select the font.

  6. Click Load. The Text menu reappears with the name of the new font in the Font field.



Accessing OTF Fonts

To access symbols of the OTF font type, access the on-screen keyboard, enable the Symbols button (in the lower right of the keyboard), then use the arrow keys to browse through the pages of symbols. When entering non-Latin text characters, consult your operating system documentation to install and access the required input method packages.

When opened, the Load Font file browser sets the file path to the current font location. If the font is still the factory default (Discreet), the path defined in the sysconfig.cfg file is used instead.

If the current file path does not match the location of the current font, update the file path using the Current Font Folder button.

Pasting Text from an External Source

You can copy text from a terminal or another application and paste it directly in a text layer. To paste text to the Text tool:

  1. In the Text tool, create a layer for the text you want to paste.

  2. Click the Font field and select a font.

  3. Stitch to the other application and copy the text.

  4. In the Text tool, paste the text in a text layer (using the default system shortcut for Paste).

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