First of all, we will create the sender address line in the address area. This line will be positioned so as to be seen in window envelopes.
Select the text tool in the Toolbox panel.
Now click somewhere in the letter document and create a frame by dragging a rectangular frame. Your document may then look like this:
Now open the Geometry inspector
, and adjust the
measurements of the created frame to be the same as those shown in the
next figure: X 2.0cm, Y 4.5cm, W 8.5cm, H 0.5cm.
Now zoom to the text frame to allow easier text editing.
Therefore choose Zoom to Selection
in the View menu
.
Your document should now look like this:
Please enter your postal address in the text frame, similar to that shown in the following example. Because the current tool is still the text tool, you can simply type into the selected frame. You will always recognize a selected frame in text edit mode by at least one visible text ruler above the frame. Your postal address will probably not fit completely into the text frame:
Select the whole text in the frame by choosing Select
All
in the Edit menu
. (Alternatively, you can press
[Command][A] — you will become familiar with the menu short cuts
by and by.) The text is selected now (indicated by being highlighted
in blue):
Now open the Text inspector
and have a look at its
parameters:
Change the font size for the selected text. Therefore, click
into the edit field Font size
and enter the value 7
.
There is no need to enter 7.0000pt
or 7.0
. iCalamus will
format the value automatically. You may also decrease the value with
the [Down Arrow] key on your keyboard in steps of 0.1pt, or with
[Shift][Down Arrow] for full unit steps.
Now your document should look like this image:
Please complete your address text. When you are done, your text frame should look like this one:
We believe that the sender address text should be centered in
the frame, don't you? No problem, just open the Text Ruler
inspector
:
There you find a list for text rulers which currently only contains the default ruler. Don't touch it, but click on the [+] button to create a new text ruler.
Adjust the new text ruler parameters as shown in the next figure. When you close the dialog with [OK], the new ruler will be inserted in the text ruler list, and it will be used in your text frame automatically.
Your sender address line text frame is done for now. Choose
Deselect All
in the Edit menu
to deselect the text
frame.
Your document should now look similar to the following image:
