2. The authoring tool of claim 1 wherein the text repository resides on a server remote from the text tool.
1. An authoring tool, stored on a server of a digital system, for creating graphic files that include text comprising: a text repository that stores text for insertion into a graphic file, the text repository including at least one table of text records, wherein each of the text records is associated with the same graphic file; and a text tool that operates within a graphical programming environment that retrieves the text from the text repository for insertion into the graphic file and recording a relationship between the inserted text and a related record of the repository, the text tool querying the text repository, based on the relationship, and including a text verification component that compares text in the graphic file with corresponding text in the repository for discrepancies between the text already inserted in the graphics file and the text of the related record, and in response to detecting a discrepancy, replacing the already inserted text with the present text from the related record.