LumaPix :: FotoFusion
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The appearance of text within text frames can be changed through the Text Editor. Double-click on existing text frames to launch the Text Editor, or change the text at the time the frame is added to the canvas.
Note: you can multiple-select text frames (hold Ctrl on your keyboard) and all changes made in the Text Editor will be applied to selected frames, or use the Toolbar Selection Tool 
and select the Image Text or Canvas Text options to select all items of this type on the canvas.
The Text Editor displays any True-Type, PostScript, or Open-Type Font available in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder on your system.
If you reinstall FotoFusion on a new computer which does not contain the same fonts as your original machine, you will most likely find that your font list has changed.
FotoFusion's text engine supports scripts (i.e. languages) other than Latin-style: e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, etc… Text direction is also respected. The only constraint is that all characters of the text must have the same script code and the same direction level.
Click on the down arrow to see all available fonts, the select one to apply to your text.
Note to all V3 & V4.0: OpenType and Postscript Fonts are not supported by the old text engine (will not show in the list and will not render). If you open an existing project or template made in these versions in a later Version 4 build, you will need to click on 
button under the font list to convert the text to the new text engine format.
Setting the Font Size
There are two ways to change the size of the text in a text frame:
| • | By setting the font size directly: the Font Editor includes a 'Size' control, measured in point size. Simply drag or click this control to set a size for the text in the currently-selected frame. Note that doing so will check the 'lock size' option for that text box; this becomes important if you later want to resize the text by the second method, namely, manually resizing with the text frame handles. You will need to UNLOCK it before the text will resize when you pull on the handles |
| • | By resizing the text frame interactively. If the text is unlocked, pulling on the frame handles will resize the text. |
Changing the drop-box options beside the font size will cause the font size to relate to the size of your text frame in different ways.
| • | Resize to Fit: Your text will grow or shrink to fit the frame. Point size is ignore. |
| • | Lock and Clip: Your text will stay exactly at the point size selected. If your text frame is shrunk too small, the text will be cut off. This is the option to choose if you need an exact point size. |
| • | Do Not Exceed: Your text will grow but only to the maximum font size. This feature is particularly useful for creating templates where the text content may change based on exif tag data |
Other Attributes
Other font attributes include bold, italic, strikeout and underline. The width of the strikeout and underline can be changed via the adjacent line size option.
Ligature controls: Certain Open type fonts will have higher level features to specify how particular character sets will be displayed. Most fonts will not have the ability to use this feature.
