Text is media like anything else: it moves, resizes, rotates and stacks the same way. It is also the one media type you create in the app rather than import.
There are two kinds. Text sits on as many lines as you type and never wraps. A paragraph wraps to the width of its box. This page covers what both share; wrapping, lists and spacing are in paragraphs, lists and spacing.
Adding text
Use the add-text tool in the poster header. A text box appears containing the placeholder Sample Text, in the app's language, already selected. Edit it to replace the placeholder.
The Paragraph button next to it, a P with a plus, adds a paragraph instead.
Editing text
Edit it in place, on the canvas, at the size and angle it will print:
- Browser and desktop — double-click the text.
- Android and iOS — tap a text box that is already selected, or use Edit Text in the toolbar.
Press Enter to start a new line. Text never wraps on its own, so each line is exactly as long as you type it, and the box widens to fit the longest one.
While editing, the canvas keeps the text where it is; you are typing into the poster, not into a dialog. On phones the canvas shifts up if the keyboard would cover what you are typing, and settles back when you finish.
On Android and iOS, leaving a text box empty removes it when you stop editing — an empty text object is not something you want to hunt for later. The browser and desktop apps keep it, so delete it yourself.
Styling
With a text box selected, the text toolbar offers:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Edit Text (Android, iOS) | Starts editing, as tapping the selected text does |
| Font | The font family — see choosing a font |
| Format | The styles the family has, such as Regular, Bold and Italic |
| Font Size | The size of the type |
| Color | The color of the type |
| Align | Left, Center or Right, and Justify on a paragraph |
| Spacing | Letter spacing and line spacing |
| List | Bullets or numbers |
| To paragraph / To text | Turns text into a paragraph, or a paragraph back into text |
Duplicate, Rotate, Deselect and Delete follow, as they do for any media.
With the text selected but not being edited, each control changes the whole text. While you are editing, Font, Format, Font Size, Color and letter spacing change only the characters you have selected — see mixing styles in one text.
Font
Docuslice has more than 1,900 font families, free on every plan. Search them, browse by category, and see each name in its own font. Choosing a font covers the picker, and what happens offline.
Format
The styles the font family actually has: Regular, Bold and Italic for most, and up to eighteen — every weight from Thin to Black, each with its italic — for the families that ship them. Docuslice never fakes a style the family does not have, because a fake bold or slant would not print the way it looks.
In the browser and desktop apps, Cmd/Ctrl + B and Cmd/Ctrl + I switch bold and italic, and they work while you are typing. Bold picks the family's Bold, or the nearest heavier style when it has no Bold; Italic keeps the weight and switches the slant. If the family has no such style, a message says so and nothing changes.
Font size
The size is in points on the printed poster. Pick a common size from the row, from 12 to 288, or type any size into the box. The sheet stays open after a pick, so you can compare sizes on the canvas.
Dragging a corner handle changes the font size too, rather than stretching the letters. See moving, resizing and rotating.
Color
Alignment
Align places each line within the text box: Left, Center or Right. A text with several lines centers each line under the one above it, for a heading or a sign. Alignment belongs to the whole text, not to selected words.
Justify only applies to a paragraph, where there are wrapped lines to spread across the box. See paragraphs, lists and spacing.
Text in the export
Text is rendered by the export at the resolution you export at, not at screen resolution, so it stays crisp on paper.
A vector PDF export goes further: text is emitted as real vector text rather than pixels, with the font embedded, so it is sharp at any size and remains selectable in a PDF reader. For a poster whose main content is type, that is usually the right export.
Text across a seam
A word that lands on a tile boundary is split by the cut, like everything else. Two things help:
- Overlap makes the join forgiving, so a slightly short cut does not eat the middle of a letter. See white gaps when taping.
- Moving the text a centimetre away from the boundary is free and often better. The tile grid is drawn on the canvas so you can see where the seams will fall.