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Questions tagged [text-object]

Questions related to creating and manipulating Blender Text objects. Text objects are useful for quickly creating 3D text by typing on the keyboard.

Text objects on the Blender Manual.

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How to change font for text objects?

Is there a way to select a typeface (I have 15,000 fonts) for a text object, or must I set type in AI and save as SVG, then import into Blender?
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How to add outline to text?

How would one add outline to a text object? Do text objects even have outline support? Should I instead create the text in GIMP or a similar program and import them in blender to replace the text objects?
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Foreign text in Blender isn't processed correctly

Blender has issues when dealing with non-English characters. I can't enter Russian text in 3D objects. Blender displays folder and file names incorrectly if they are in Russian. Is there a solution to these text-encoding…
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Text objects are messed up when using Offset

Sometimes when using the Offset parameter in Text object data > Geometry > Modification to shrink or fatten characters, some characters will get incorrectly displayed: The default Bfont is more immune to this then most other fonts I tried, where…
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How do I type on a Bézier curve?

How can I get an effect like this? This is what I have right now: I'm trying to make the words follow the line so I can curve sentences downward. Credits: https://www.behance.net/gallery/60396931/BLACK-SERIES-1-POSTER-COLLECTION
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ScriptingText Ascii Art to 3d Text Mesh - Ways to preserve spaces when converting txt to 3d Object

So I'm trying to import some actual ascii art into the scripting window's txt editor, aiming to convert it into an extruded 3d mesh to create the basis for some quick mazes. But upon conversion despite the looking fine in the text editor, the…
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Inserting a ❤ symbol into text

I'm trying to put a piece of text into Blender 2.76, most of it works and is OK, putting the ❤ symbol into the text editor pane works. When I try and put it into a text object, all I get is a square symbol (i.e. can't display it). I've tried copy…
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Can Blender's bundled "bfont" be used for commercially?

Blender, which I use to create my video intros, comes bundled with a bfont by default so the question is: Is this font is free for commercial use and what type of license does this "bfont" font have?
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Boolean and Texts

I have used Hexagon for years but find that it sometimes crashes when trying to do Boolean operations with texts. I have been trying to make the two tables of the Ten Commandments and have been trying to use Blender. I did it about two years ago in…
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Link the text content of two text objects

Is it possible to link text objects in such a manner, that changing the text content on one object will automatically also change the text of another text object. To clarify, I do not want to link any other properties of those two objects (like…
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Is it possible to copy text settings?

I want to change multiple text objects at once. Is there a way to copy the settings to all selected text objects?
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How do I write Hebrew letters in a text object?

Is there a way to write Hebrew letters in a text object? I can't write Hebrew directly. I also tried to copy and paste letters with "Ctrl + v" but to no avail. Is there any way to do that?
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Font special ASCII characters in 2.6

To display a special font character (a character that does not have it's own key on the keyboard) in most Windows apps you press and hold the Alt key then enter an ASCII character number using the numeric keypad (located on the right side of the…
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Blender has loaded a letter/font wrong

I'm using the font 'Birth of a Hero' and suddenly the capital 'T' is partially gone which isn't meant to happen. Not really sure why this is happening. It looks fine in normal documents and both photoshop and illustrator, just Blender doesn't seem…
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Triangulating 3D Text

Im trying to create a triangulated .obj file with 3D text. Problem is, after creating the text I can't find a way to properly triangulate it. Converting it to a mesh only triangualte parts of it. Is there a simple way to do something like that?…
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