Text Contextual Tab

Text tab serves as a contextual tab that defines formatting of Text or Text Box objects.

The following groups of settings are available on the Text tab:

Format group lets you define the text format.

  • Show/hide printer fonts: button turns visibility of printer fonts on the font list on/off.

  • Font: allows specifying the typeface and its size. Fonts fall into two groups, OpenType fonts and Printer fonts.

    Note

    If the currently selected printer is a thermal printer, additional fonts will be visible on the list of available fonts. These are the Printer fonts identified by the printer icon in front of their names.

  • The font may appear Bold, Italic, Underlined or as a Strikethrough text.

  • Alignment buttons allow you to align the text to the left, center, right, or evenly.

  • Font color: specifies font and underscore color.

  • Increase/decrease font buttons allow you to gradually change the font size.

  • Scaling: factor that defines how much the font is stretched from its original proportions.

    Note

    If the stretch factor is set to 100 %, the font has a normal look. If factor is 200 %, it means that font is twice as wide as normal. If it is 50 %, the font is half as wide.

Text Setting group allows defining the layout of any textual content that is added to the object.

Character and Paragraph button opens line and character spacing options:

  • Line spacing: distance between each line in a paragraph.

  • Character spacing: distance between individual characters.

Effects button displays the available text effects:

  • Inverse: inverts the colors of text and background.

  • Mirror: mirrors the text.

  • RTL printing: prints the text from right to left.

Tip

Most thermal printers automatically print Arabic and Hebrew text from right-to-left. Enable this option it if the operating system does not provide native RTL support.

Text Fit button opens the automatic text sizing options:

  • None: disables the resizing. In this case, text field dimensions and font size do not adapt to the amount of inserted content in a text box.

  • Ignore excessive content: removes the text content that does not fit into the object.

Tip

When enabled, the object only uses the amount of text that can be contained in the box. The remaining text is discarded.

  • Adjust height to fit content: adapts the text box height to fit the content.

  • Fit content by adjusting font size: sets the acceptable label object font size range. Font size adapts to the text box size automatically.

Note

Text Fit button is available when configuring the Rich Text Box object.

Group objects: adds selected objects to a group.

  • Group objects: unites the selected objects and makes them behave as a single object.
  • Ungroup objects separates previously grouped objects.

Arrange: defines how objects are positioned in a group.

  • Bring forward: moves the selected object up one layer.
  • Bring to front: moves the selected object to the top of the object stack.
  • Send backward: moves the selected object down one layer.
  • Send to back: moves the selected object to the bottom of the object stack.

Align group allows setting the alignment and spacing for objects on the design surface. All objects can be aligned according to the neighboring object or according to the document border.

Horizontal alignment options are:

  • Left: aligns the selected objects with the left edge of the leftmost object or with the left edge of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed on the label's left border.
  • Center Horizontally: aligns the selected objects with the horizontal center of the largest selected object or with the horizontal center of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed in the horizontal center of a label.
  • Right: aligns the selected objects with the right edge of the rightmost object or with the right edge of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed on the label's right border.
  • Distribute Horizontally: equalizes horizontal spacing between the objects.

Vertical alignment options are:

  • Top: aligns the selected objects with the top edge of the topmost object or with the top edge of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed on the label's top border.
  • Center Vertically: aligns the selected objects with the vertical center of the largest selected object or with the vertical center of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed in the vertical center of a label.
  • Bottom: aligns the selected objects with the bottom edge of the lowest object or with the bottom edge of the first selected object. If a single object is selected, it is placed on the label's bottom border.
  • Distribute Vertically: equalizes vertical spacing between the objects.

Tip

Align to label/form is achieved by holding the <Ctrl> key and clicking the above listed align icons.