Adobe® Edge Animate on Demand

5. Working with Text

What You’ll Do

Create Text Boxes

Add Text

Edit Text

Dictate Text

Insert Special Characters

Examine Text Properties

Change Text Properties

Get Web Fonts

Add Web Fonts

Resize Text Boxes

Clip Text

Transform Text

Add Shadows to Text

Change Text Tags

Add Links to Text

Introduction

In addition to the shape tools, the Tools panel includes a text tool for creating text elements in your animations. The Text Tool creates a text box container for holding text. Just like shapes and graphics, text elements are composed of attributes that you can change in the Properties panel. Edge Animate uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) text properties—such as font family, size, color, weight, italic, underline, alignment, and line spacing—to format ...