CorelDRAW Help | Format Asian text

Format Asian text

To choose a text orientation for Asian text

Asian character input is supported in CorelDRAW only when using an appropriate operating system or when language support is installed on a non-Asian operating system. You can choose a default font and text orientation (either horizontal or vertical) when typing text. When you type artistic or paragraph text, the program uses a default artistic or paragraph text style.

When you insert Asian or Middle Eastern text in existing Latin text, the application automatically matches the font of the Latin text if the font is available in the corresponding language. However, you can disable the font matching option so that the inserted text has the default font specified for Asian or Middle Eastern languages. For more information, see To disable font matching in multilingual text.

To choose a default font for Asian text

1 Click the Text tool

2 Press Esc to ensure that no objects are selected.

3 Choose an input method from the Input Method Editor (IME) on the Windows status bar.

If the Windows Language bar is displayed, you can choose an input method from the Language bar.

4 Choose a font from the Font list box on the property bar.

5 Choose a font style from the Font style list box.

To choose a text orientation for Asian text

1 Using the Pick tool

, select the frame that contains the text whose orientation you want to change.

2 Click Window

Dockers

Properties.

3 In the Properties docker, click the Frame button

to display the frame-related controls.

4 Choose one of the following orientation options from the Text orientation list box:

• Horizontal

• Vertical

The default orientation for Asian text is horizontal.

When you change the text orientation from horizontal to vertical, underlines become left lines and overlines become right lines.

The text orientation setting applies to the entire text object. You cannot have text with different orientations in one text object.

If you have Asian text support installed with your operating system, you can also change text orientation by clicking the Vertical text orientation or Horizontal text orientation buttons on the property bar when the Text tool is active.