Text

Purpose

Use Text to add text to your image, for example to label structures of interest.

Procedure

Adding text

1. Click Text on the Publish ribbon.
2. Click in the 2D window where you want text to be placed. The Add Text dialog box is displayed.
3. Type the text. The text is centered as a single line.
   • Click Set Font to modify the text font, size, and color.
4. Click OK. If you can't see the text, it is likely that the text color doesn't contrast enough with the image, or that the font size is too small.

Editing text

1. Click Select objects on the Publish or Trace ribbon.
2. Click the text to select it.

3. Right-click to access editing options:

   • Move selected text: Click then drag the text to a different location.

   • Rotate selected text: Click then drag to rotate the text.

   • Delete selected text: Click to delete the text.

   • Hide selected text: Click to hide the text.

   • Copy selected text: Copy the selected text to the clipboard.

   • Place text into set...: Select text along with other objects, then place them into a set to associate them with each other. You can then select individual sets and edit all objects in a set at the same time.

   • Change text to color...: Click and choose a new color from the color picker.

   • Change font...: Click to change the font type, style, size, color, and effects.

   • Exit selection tool: Click to exit object-selection mode.

Deleting text

1. Click Select objects on the Trace ribbon.
2. Click the text to select it.
3. Press Delete on your keyboard.