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• The letters in the various LetterMats all contain the specific characteristics associated to the specific font. Some of the letters are Single line, and some are Outlines.

The letters are formed with Single Lines, not drawn as the outlines of shapes. Single Line LetterMat fonts can only be Debossed or drawn with the Pen.

The Outline LetterMatfonts display the shapes of the letters as outlines with only a slight distinction between the thin and thick strokes.

The LetterMat™ fonts are specialized fonts designed specifically for the Wizard FrameShop software.

Single Line Fonts: The letters are formed with Single Lines, not drawn as the outlines of shapes. Single line fonts can only be Debossed or drawn with the Pen.

Outline Fonts: The Outline fonts display the shapes of the letters as outlines with only a slight distinction between the thin and thick strokes. These fonts can be Debossed, Penned or Cut.

See: Add Font Function

See: LetterMat Properties

Mat Designs are complete mat designs containing openings and can contain decorative or thematic elements to be cut/applied on the CMC created in Designer the Design Editor and Visualization.

• Even with all the decorative elements of the individual fonts, captions can easily be Deboss/Penned smaller than they can be cut, but there may be a few spacing problems that require attention.

• Whether it is FrameShop or MatDesigner, the Wizard design program’s FrameShop’s main purpose is to align rectangular openings. The program measures the distance between letters as if they, too, were rectangles.

• With the angles and curves of letters, some letter pairs appear incorrectly spaced in the Wizard program. The spacing must be corrected manually to make a caption look its best. Fortunately, the lower case letters of the Thorndike OL font have few glaring spacing problems.

• Some would say that the spacing problems with the Thorndike font are too insignificant to notice, but every framer will evaluate and decide. Whatever the decision, it is good to know what spacing variances do exist and how to fix them.

One method for repairing the spacing is to click the Explode Font button under the Advanced tab. This splits the entire caption so that each letter is a separate LetterMat item. Though everything about each letter is now individually adjustable – size, font, and placement - this option discards the most useful LetterMat utilities of Kerning and Tracking.

A more surgical approach to spacing is to divide the caption into pieces at the incorrect space. Then line up the parts of the caption and move them individually to correct the spacing. Each part of the caption still has Kerning and Tracking control, and no letters will be accidently moved off the baseline.

Remember that this is only an example. Decide in each situation if spacing needs attention.

• Once the manual spacing is complete – with this, or any other LetterMat spacing project - it would be best if the parts remained together as work on the design continues.

• Select the parts of the caption.

• Click the Group Selection button at the upper right under Tools.

• The selected items become locked together. The software will treat them as one item. The entire caption can be moved from place to place in the design without worry that its parts will be accidentally nudged out of place.