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Adding Text to Pages

Pages of your photobook often need more than just photos and other graphical embellishments.  Text (words that you write yourself) is often needed to add titles and headings, describe the context of the photographs, add humour, or label the photos in some way.  Momento provides you with several ways that text can be added to any page, described below.

All text in your photobook (with the exception of photo captions) exists within text boxes.  This is a box on your page with text in it that can be positioned and sized much like any other photo or graphical element.

Types of Text

There are five ways that text may be used in your photobook:

  1. Heading text - large type that can provide a heading for a page.  Heading text can be added to any page in any position.  For example:
  2. Paragraph text - regular type to tell a story or offer a description.  Paragraph text can be added to any page in any position.  For example:
  3. Caption text - small type for labelling a single photo.  Caption text is only available directly under a photo.  For example:
  4. Cover text - large type for the cover page.  For example:
  5. Custom text - any sized type, positioned anywhere on any page, even on top of a photograph.  For example:

Adding Text

Heading, Paragraph, Cover and Custom text are all added in Layout View.  Caption text can be added in either Layout View or Sort View.

To insert Heading, Paragraph, Cover and Custom text in Layout View:

  1. Click the  button in the top-right corner of Layout View.  The mouse pointer turns into a crosshair:
  2. Click anywhere on the page in the spot that should contain the top-left corner of the area that will contain your new text and drag the mouse to the right until the square you've drawn is as wide as the text area you wish to create:

    Note that you don't need to give the box any specific height.  The text box will automatically expand to contain all the text you type.
  3. When you release the mouse button, the Edit text box will be shown:
  4. From the drop-down list box at the top of the window, select the type of text that most closely matches what sort of text you are about to type (for example, Paragraph font)
  5. Type your text into the main area of the Edit text box:
  6. Click the OK button.  Your text will be added to the page:

    Note that the black border around the text is not shown in the printed photobook

Note:  To quickly add Heading or Paragraph text boxes, select either the Add heading text or Add paragraph text options from the Text menu.  Then proceed from step 2 above.  You will be able to skip step 4.

To insert Caption text in Layout View:

Adding a caption to a photo is a slightly different process, because captions can only be positioned directly underneath photos.

  1. Click once on a photo in Layout View to select it.
  2. Double-click on the grey button under the photo entitled Double-click to edit caption:
  3. Follow steps 4, 5 and 6 in the steps above on adding regular (non-caption) text.

Note:  The caption will match the width of the photo, so if there is a lot of text, or the photo is not very wide, the text will wrap around so as to not go beyond the width of the photo.

To insert Caption text in Sort View:

  1. Click once on the photo as it appears in the centre portion of the screen in Sort View.  The photo and its accompanying details are highlighted in blue:
  2. Click once in the white area to the right of the word Caption
  3. Enter the text you want for the caption of the photo, and press Enter.

Note:  In Sort View you are not given the option to change the font settings for the caption (see below).

Modifying Text

Once you have added text to a page, there are several ways you can make changes to it:

These are explained below.

Moving Text Around the Page

A text box can be easily moved from one place on a page to another:

  1. Click anywhere in the middle of an existing text box and hold down the mouse button
  2. Drag the text box to the new position on the page

Notes:

Resizing a Text Box

Sometimes it is necessary to make a text box narrower or wider.  Usually this will have a side-effect of making the text box automatically taller or shorter (it is not possible to make a text box taller or shorter directly).  To resize a text box:

  1. In Layout View, click once anywhere in the text box you want to resize
  2. Click either of the text box's resize handles (indicated in the illustration below), and drag it to the left or right.

Change Text's Font and Alignment

For a more interesting or professional-looking photobook, it is sometimes desirable to change text's:

Note:  It is not possible to make changes to individual words within a text box (for example, to make a particular word bold).

To make changes to a text box's font and alignment:

  1. Double-click anywhere in the text box you wish to change
  2. The Edit text box appears
  3. By selecting Left, Right or Centre from the drop-down list box, you can determine the text box's alignment (whether the text in the box is aligned to the box's left edge, right edge, or centred in the box).
  4. Click the Set Font button.  The Font box appears:
  5. Using this box, you can set the text box's font (typeface), style (bold, italics, or both), size (in points), colour, or effects (strikeout or underline)
  6. Click the OK button (twice) when you are happy with your changes.

Notes:

Setting Default Font Styles

You may find yourself entering several text headings (for example) into pages in your photobook and applying the same text formatting to each (for example, making each heading 24-point Tahoma in green and italics, centred on the page.  If so, you would quickly get tired of making the exact same changes to every heading in the photobook.

Momento provides a mechanism by which all heading text on all pages in your photobook can be adjusted at the same time.  The same applies for Paragraph text, Caption text and even Cover text.  The collection of all the font and alignment settings for each type of text (e.g. Paragraph text) is called a text style.  Only one text style can be set for each of the four text types (Paragraph, Heading, Caption and Cover).  For example, if you set a font style, size and colour for Paragraph text, then every time you choose to use Paragraph text on any page of your photobook, the text style will be the settings you have chosen for Paragraph text.  This promotes consistency of style within your photobook, and also saves you the time it would take to set the style for each text box individually.

To set a style for each of the four types of text:

  1. Select the , choose the Set fonts... option from the program's Text menu.  The Font Settings box appears:
  2. For each of the text types, optionally select a default alignment from the type's drop-down list (Left, Right or Centre)
  3. For each of the text types, click the Set font... button.  The Font box appears:
  4. Make any font adjustments you like, keeping in mind that the changes you make will apply to all text boxes in your photobook with this type of text.

Tip:  Because Heading and Paragraph text can be used on any page in any position, you can set two different styles and use them interchangeably. They do not specifically have to be used as a heading or a paragraph.

Notes: