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New to C4D, how can I create a text bounding box?
Posted by Maha Mohtaseb on July 4, 2012 at 10:55 pmI’m fairly new to C4D (using R13, if it makes a difference). I’m trying to figure out how to make a text bounding box. If someone could tell me exactly how, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
Maha Mohtaseb replied 12 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 11 Replies -
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Maha Mohtaseb
July 5, 2012 at 12:07 amMaybe there’s a different term for this in C4D?
This link shows images of what Adobe calls the text “bounding box” (I’m only referring to the images, not the content):https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/docs/fonts%20and%20text%20palettes.html
Is there a similar option to this in C4D?
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Brian Jones
July 5, 2012 at 12:18 amah, you are looking for the Text object (in Create/Spline/Text) and/or if you have MoGraph the MoText object. They don’t work like your example, you add the object which has “Text” as the default then you change that to what you want in the Attribute Manager
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Maha Mohtaseb
July 5, 2012 at 3:53 pmI understand that. What I meant was if I was to paste 1000 words, I’d have no option but to have one enormous line of text, 1000 words long? What if I want to have 1000 words, divided into 30 lines? No way around that besides doing it manually?
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Maha Mohtaseb
July 5, 2012 at 4:07 pmI understand that. What I meant was if I was to paste 1000 words, I’d have no option but to have one enormous line of text, 1000 words long- What if I want to have 1000 words, divided into 30 lines? No way around that besides doing it manually?
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Brian Jones
July 5, 2012 at 6:36 pmyes, there is no line-wrap because it’s not a text editor (and how would you decide the ‘page size’ so you’d have to do your own carriage returns. But if you copy text that already has carriage returns in it they get copied in too so you don’t really have to do it in C4D
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Jeremy Allen
July 5, 2012 at 8:13 pmIf you really want to control the formatting of your text, best bet is to do it in Illustrator, save as Illustrator 8, then merge into C4D.
Yes, its a pain, but C4D doesn’t really have much control of text formatting..
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