FontWork

Contents

Overview	ii

Copyright and trademark information	ii

Feedback	ii

Acknowledgments	ii

Modifications and updates	ii

Using FontWork	1

Creating gradient color fills	1

Changing the color of FontWork text	1

Overview

Instead of Microsoft Office's WordArt, OpenOffice.org has FontWork. The FontWork window is dockable at the sides of the screen.

Copyright and trademark information

The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this License. A copy of the License is available at:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.rtf

The Original Documentation is FontWork. The Initial Writer(s) of the Original Documentation is/are Ian Laurenson © 2004. All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer contact(s): hillview@paradise.net.nz. The Initial Writer contact(s) is to report errors in the documentation. For questions regarding how to use the software, subscribe to the Users Mail List and post your question there: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html)

All trademarks within this guide belong to legitimate owners.

Feedback

Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to:
authors@user-faq.openoffice.org.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the OOoAuthors team for proofreading this work, particularly Daniel Carrera and Jean Hollis Weber.

Modifications and updates

Version	Date	Description of Change
1.0	27 October 2004	First published version.
1.1	1 November 2004	Minor errors corrected.

Using FontWork

To use FontWork:

Select the Text Tool (found on the Draw tear off toolbar in Writer and Calc and on the Main toolbar in Draw and Impress) .

Draw a text frame in the document.

Type some text (if text isn't typed into the frame before clicking outside the text frame, the text frame is removed).

Format > Fontwork.

Apply the desired effects from the Fontwork toolbox.

Creating gradient color fills

A popular feature of WordArt that FontWork doesn't have is gradient color fills of the text. A work-around is to use Draw instead where it is possible to convert text to curves, apply a gradient fill and then copy this object into your document.

To do gradient color fills of text in Writer:

Insert > Object > OLE Object ... > Drawing.

Draw a text shape (style it to taste, using font, size, etc.).

Modify > Convert > To Curve.

Format > Area.

Pick the Area tab. Set Fill to Gradient. Pick a Gradient.

Click OK.

Format > Line.

Pick Line tag. Set Style to Invisible. Click OK.

Reposition the text to top left and resize the window as appropriate.

Click outside the Draw window to return to Writer.

Changing the color of FontWork text

To change the color of the FontWork text:

Double-click the FontWork object.

Select the text.

Format > Character.. > Font Color.

Note: The color controls in the object toolbar do not relate to the FontWork text but rather to the contour line that the text is following.

Using FontWork

FontWork	1

Title:	FontWork:
Version:	1.1
First edition:	November 2004

Overview

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FontWork

Jean Hollis Weber

2004-10-26T19:27:45