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This is our Eighth Illustrator tutorials post for the Beginners. Here we have listed very basic method to handle Text menu, Type on path, Threaded text, Fit Headline, Text Orientation, and Legacy text.

Text Menu:

In the text menu we have different option of adjusting the text parameters.

Fonts:

Allows you to select the fonts of the text.

Recent Fonts:

Displays the recently used fonts in the file.

Size:

Allows you to alter the size of the font.

Glyphs:

You can use this option to insert some odd characters, which cannot be found on the keyboard. It works as a character map.

Area type option:

This helps you in adjusting the Rows and Columns for the text, which has been written in area. It is used to adjust the text alignment for the newspaper or magazine as required.

Type on path:

These are different types of orientation given to the text, which are placed on the any path.

Threaded text:

if the text content is more than the area of the text than you can define another area and thread the text between two areas, so the hidden text in the initial area will be displayed in the second area drawn.

Fit Headline:

This Option helps you in adjusting the headline of the paragraph according to the area of the text. For this you need to select the title or head and give this option.

Text Orientation:

it helps to change the orientation of the text from horizontal to vertical or vice-versa.

Legacy text:

When you open the file from the older version than text used in that may get disturb. So overcome this problem you need to give legacy text option to Maintain its originality. This option is also asked when the file is still opening. You can give this option at that moment or later from the menu.

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