Text and typography

This section includes topics that describe how to work with controls that display text. Some of these are simple controls, such as a Button. Others are special Windows Presentation Foundation text controls that allow for input or rich text editing.

In This Section

Conceptual

• Text and typography overview

How to

• Add a text control to the artboard

• Add an object to text flow

• Edit text

• Format text

• Format paragraphs

• Indent a line or a paragraph

• Set text wrapping

• Make text editable or read-only

• Check spelling

• Change the color of text objects

• Create a bulleted or numbered list

• Create a hyperlink in a Page document

• Convert text to a path

• Add a custom font to your application

• Embed a font or a subset of a font in your application

• Open the Font Manager

Try it!

• Try it: Create a FlowDocumentReader control

• Try it: Create a hyperlink that opens a browser window

See also

Concepts

Animate the points on a path or clipping path