djh
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special characters, text close to bubble - 2007/08/22 01:32
The main problem I see when using comic life is with the text spacing relative to the edges of the bubble. It can take a lot of minor tweeking of the bubble size to keep the text letters from overlapping the bubble edge. Justifying the text doesn't really do what you would expect... it doesn't space the text to keep a constant distance to the edge of the bubble, but rather it doesn the NOT USEFUL thing of justifying to a RECTANGLE shape even inside an OVAL shape. I really don't even know why you bothered to add the justify if all it does is force the text block to look like a rectangle. When it cuts text it doesn't automatically hyphenate where it wraps the text to the next line, in a long word. So, I think this product would be a lot more useful if the resulting text spacing came closer to approximating what you can do by hand spacing; a nice little space between the text and the bubble with NEVER and overlap, and something to prevent big empty space on some lines, which looks really dorky. Or at least some way to go in and manually tidy up the sloppy way that it automatically lays out the text.
The other thing that would be a great addition would be a panel of special characters that could be added in from a click-to-pick menu list. For example, music notes to symbolize whistling, or a bunch of #%*&*)&!? for cussing, or other characters hard to find using the keyboard.
I LOVE the product, keep up the good work, and I just home the text spacing gets improved to make this thing REALLY REALLY good!
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