The Font Toolbar

The Font toolbar is used to control the formatting of text objects in your document. It provides access to all the TrueType fonts installed on your system and, like all other toolbars, it can be moved, re-sized and docked around the screen.

The Text Height is given in normal measurement units ( millimeters, meters, inches or feet and inches, depending on the unit applied to the document you’re working on). You might be familiar with the “point size” system which gives an absolute size to text when it is printed - this line of text, for example, is 10 point and the title of this section is 18 point. In Stardraw A/V Lite real measurement units are used instead of point sizes because this application is designed to produce construction and engineering drawings which are usually drawn on a one to one scale. When a drawing is based on, for example, a metre-square grid and you’re drawing large objects it is far easier to size text appropriately using real measurements like metres. Since your document is scaled when it is printed the text will be scaled too. In this way you can establish a good balance between the size of text and the overall size of your document.

Like other formatting toolbars, the characteristics set or displayed in the Font toolbar will be applied as defaults to new objects, in this case text objects, as you draw them.

If the Font Toolbar is not displayed, make sure that its box is checked when you select Toolbars... from the View menu.

Click on any of the tools to see further help for that tool.