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Unshaded title
In case you hadn't guessed, this tutorial is about titles! We cover the following topics:

What is a title?
Changing a title
Gradient fill for titles -- shading
Anti-aliasing titles
Ways to rotate titles (or images)
Skewing titles
Titles as outlines (Convert to Path)
Image formats for titles

What is a title?

A Title is text that is rendered (drawn) into an image file. Rendered titles have the following advantages over text objects:
Titles have the following limitations:
Because it creates an image file, a title is best used as a high quality header. Text objects are best used for large blocks of formatted text such as you are reading now.

To create a new title, select the Title button on the Tools toolbar at the left or select Title from the Object menu at the top of the page.

Title Editor button
Unshaded title
Changing a title
Quick Editor button
Quick Editor Shading tab
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New Shading button
Tool: Shading Editor
Gradient fill for titles -- shading

Gradient fill for titles is the same as gradient fill for other objects.
Shaded Title
Quick Editor button
Select the Quick Editor > Shading tab and try some gradient fills on the title just above.
Anti-aliasing titles

Select the Quick Editor > Object tab

When you check the Anti-Alias box, the Title will be anti-aliased when you publish or preview your project. (The jaggies will be smoothed out.)

With High Render work window checked, all anti-aliased objects will be displayed with anti-aliasing on your workpage. This will show you the quality of the title when you publish. But it may make the workpage sluggish, especially if you are working with a large project or on a slow computer -- if so, you may wish to leave the High Render box unchecked.

See also: Anti-Aliasing shapes



Ways to rotate titles (or images)

Select the "Shaded Title" object again if it is not the current object. Rotate it by one of these methods:

Use Ctrl + Arrow Keys
Hold the Ctrl Key on your keyboard, then press the Up or Down keyboard arrows. As you do, the title will rotate.

Quick Editor > Object tab
Either enter an angle into the Rotate box or use the adjacent Up/Down arrows.

Rotate and Skew tool
Click the rotate and skew tool at the top left of left toolbar. Identify the rotate handles of the title and rotate it by dragging.  More on Rotating.

As you rotate the title, it may display significant aliasing at different angles. Check the High Render check box to view the quality of the title when it is published. Titles rotated to 45 degrees will generally produce larger image files than titles that have 0 or 90 degree rotations.

If you find one or more of these processes sluggish, uncheck the High Render box in the Quick editor to improve the performance of the workpage.



Skewing titles
Skew a title in the same way as you would skew an image.
Quick Editor button
Rotate and skew tool
Titles as Outlines
Right-click menu
Titles as outlines (Convert to Path)
It is possible to outline titles as shown above. To do this:
This is one-way process -- you can Convert to Path, but you can't go back to a Title. If you don't see the Convert to Path option, you may have already converted that title.
See also: Titles as Paths



Image formats for titles
Titles can be created using any of the available file formats set as discussed in the image tutorial.


See also:
Images tutorial (a title is an image)
Rendering tutorial





Quick Editor button