Using the Updated Text Tool

Using the Text Direction Setting

Paint Shop Pro now allows you to set a direction for multi-line text blocks. To use this setting:

Choose the Text tool from the Tools toolbar, and then click on the image. The Text Entry dialog appears.
Enter the multi-line text you want to place on the image.
Select the text block, and then in the Tool Options palette, choose one of the three Direction options:
Horizontal and Down: this creates "normal" text where subsequent lines are placed below the top text line.
Vertical and Left: this places each character vertically, but subsequent lines are placed to the left of the top line.
Vertical and Down: this places each character vertically, but subsequent lines are placed to the right of the top line.

Instead of a simple check box to define whether the Anti-alias option is On or Off, there is now an Anti-alias drop list offering three options:

Kerning improvements include:

Paint Shop Pro now allows for kerning pairs where applicable.
Kerning values are applied based the direction of the character.
Kerning is relative to the current value of the Em-space.
Kerning values are now entered as 1.000 equal one EM, whereas in the previous version of the application they were equal to 1000 EMs.

The Tracking feature allows you to set an equal amount of spacing across selected characters.

Text on a path feature improvements include:

There is now a new Object menu command called Detach Object from Path, allowing you to detach text from its associated path.
Text fit to a path can now be selected independently and moved to another position along the path.
The Offset setting in the Text tool options allows you to define the distance between the text and its associated path.