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Learn how to snap and draw objects precisely around the boundary of live Japanese glyph.
The Snap to Glyph feature lets you snap your artwork components precisely with the text, without the need to create outlines or reference guides. Simply choose a snapping option and the glyph guides will appear on the live text when you draw, scale, rotate, or move objects. Follow these guides to snap precisely with the live text.
Along with Latin characters, you can also use the snap to glyph feature on Japanese characters and fonts. Read this article to learn how to view and use smart guides with Japanese glyphs.
To access Japanese glyph smart guides:
Now, if you open Character panel, the Snap to Glyph section will display Japanese snapping options, which are all ON by default.
To use this feature, ensure that Glyph Snapping (View > Snap to Glyph) and Smart Guides (View > Smart Guides) are enabled.
This feature will not work if View > Snap to Grid is enabled, Preference > Smart Guides > Alignment Guides are disabled & Snapping Tolerance is 0.
Use the following options in the Snap to Glyph section in the Character panel. Japanese specific options include – Embox and Embox Center. The other options work with both Japanese & Latin glyphs.
A. Embox B. Glyph bound C. Embox Center D. Glyph bound E. Embox
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(EmBox) Snaps the objects with the Embox of the Japanese font while drawing, moving, or scaling. When this option is selected, these guides appear for Embox top and bottom on horizontal Japanese text and Embox left and right on vertical Japanese text. |
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(Embox Center) Snaps the objects to the Embox Center of the Japanese glyph or font while drawing, moving, or scaling. When this option is selected, these guides appear for Embox Center in both horizontal and vertical Japanese text. |
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(Glyph Bounds): Snaps to top, bottom, left, and right bounds of the glyph. |
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(Baseline): Snaps to the base of the glyph. |
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(Angular Guides):Snaps to the angular guides that appear on rotating the text frame and on selecting a glyph with angular segments (from the context-sensitive menu). |
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(Anchor Points): Draw and snap to the anchor points of glyphs. |
Points to note:
If you have one Japanese language font and one Latin language font applied on respective glyphs together inside the same text box, snapping guides relevant to both fonts appear.
Latin guides include glyph bounds, baseline, and x-height and Japanese guides include only glyph bounds.
Points to note:
To snap objects to an individual glyph in the text,
Points to note:
To release the individual glyph selection and snapping,
Any other action, such as text editing, will release the glyph automatically.
The Snap to Glyph > Angular Guides option lets you snap objects set at a particular angle with the glyph while you move, scale, or rotate them and draw them using the Pen tool. Angular guides will appear only:
Currently, objects set at an angle will snap from their bounding box and object center.
Use the Snap to Glyph > Anchor Points option in the Character panel to draw and snap a shape on a glyph.
The anchor point snapping works only with the Pen tool or when the object is moved closer to the anchor point on the glyph.
Do the following:
The Snap to glyph feature works for both point text and area text. If you have only one line of text, all guides and anchors are shown for that line. If you have a paragraph, only glyph bounds are shown to simplify the experience. To precisely snap to a glyph in the paragraph, select the glyph and then use the glyph guides for further snapping.
Only glyph bounds will appear when Warichu is applied to area text.
By default, the glyph guides are shown in green. To change the glyph guide color, go to Preferences > Smart Guides > Glyph Guides and choose a color from the drop-down.
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