- You've seen what a powerful drawing program
Illustrator is but it's also insanely great
at creating and formatting text.
You can click with the type tool
and bang out a few words that align to a point.
Or you can import text and flow it into columns.
You can search fonts by name and by style, as well as arrow
your way through all the fonts installed on your system.
You can fit a headline to a specific column width,
create drop caps and resolve widows and orphans.
You can wrap text around a graphic,
not to mention flow text along a path outline.
And you can locate fractions, ornaments,
and other hidden characters
using the highly intuitive glyphs panel.
Seriously, there's so much you can do,
it's a bit overwhelming.
In fact, full disclosure, I have to warn you
that this chapter is intense.
Some people at this point, they'll be tempted to bow out,
which gives you the edge.
Because if I know you, you're up for the challenge.
Here, let me show you exactly and in painstaking detail
how text inside Illustrator works.