Re: Invisible Object Style and Default Font Work-around

There's a setting to not click through shapes with no fill in the  
General preference pane, or you can give it a fill color with 0%  
opacity, either of those should work.

Joel

On Sep 3, 2009, at 7:48 AM, John Gersh wrote:

> In looking for a work-around for the text tool style bug, I started  
> playing
> around with invisible objects (no line, no fill). The idea would be  
> to type
> into an invisible object to get the right text style, rather than  
> using the
> text tool. I found an inconsistency in the way that style is  
> handled. The
> invisible object style shows up in the Canvas:Selection panel in the
> Inspector, but does not appear in the Canvas Styles section of the  
> Shape
> tool pull-down. Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> In any case, you can’t easily type into an invisible shape. You can’t
> double-click it, since there’s nothing to click. If you select it by
> dragging a box around it, you still can’t type into it. If you  
> select it by
> tabbing through all the objects, you can type into it and get the  
> desired
> default font.
>
> For the moment, the easiest work-around I can find is to set the  
> font of
> your first text object to your desired default. Then, after you make  
> some
> text in the now-fixed-default 12 pt Helvetica, select some other  
> text that’s
> in the desired style and drag the font chit from the style tray at the
> bottom of the window to the new text object.
>
> - John Gersh
>
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