Property |
Description |
Value |
Description |
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Paragraph spacing |
Distance to next paragraph ("Paragraph spacing"). You specify the distance in points: To achieve line spacing of 1.5 with a font size of 10 points, enter 5 points. Negative values are also allowed. You should always make the settings under Options > Objects > Object font. |
Number Formula |
Formula wizard |
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Alignment |
You can specify the alignment in the same way as in your text processing program. |
0 1 2 Formula |
Left Centered Right Formula wizard |
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Justified |
Block text is justified both right and left. This property only takes effect if the line in question is wrapped at the end of the line. In other words, the line must be longer than the available space, it must consist of more than one word and the "Line wrap" option must be enabled. The last line is presented according to the "Alignment" property. |
True False Formula |
Yes No Formula wizard |
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Format |
Please consider that the formatting relates to the result of the entire expression. Use the Date$() and Fstr$() functions in the formula wizard if you only want to format part of the expression (e.g. with text and number within an expression). |
True False |
Dialog |
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Blank optimization |
The blank optimization option lets you remove unwanted blanks (leading, embedded and trailing). Consider the following situation: In a label project, you are printing a line with the variables <SALUTATION> <FIRSTNAME> <NAME> whereby the individual variables are separated by blanks in each case. If there is no salutation for a data record, this variable remains empty; the following blank would however be printed. First name and name would be shifted by one position (leading blank). If the "Firstname" variable is empty, there would be two spaces (embedded blanks) between "Salutation" and "Name". If all three variables were empty, both blanks would remain (trailing blanks). This means that the line is not empty and would therefore not be suppressed automatically. The "Blank Optimization" option helps in such cases. It can remove leading, embedded and trailing blanks automatically. Multiple embedded blanks are reduced automatically to a single blank. |
True False Formula |
Yes No Formula wizard |
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Inerasable |
Lines that are completely empty are suppressed automatically. In this case, the following lines move upwards. This is normally correct but can be unwanted in some cases, e.g. when filling out forms. With the "Untraceable" option, the line in question remains, even if it is empty after inserting the variables. |
True False Formula |
Yes No Formula wizard |
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Line wrap |
Sets the behavior if the text is too long for one line. 0: The content will be truncated at the end of the line. 1: The content will be wrapped. To prevent longer words from getting truncated, you can use the option "Force Wrap" to force a wrap after the last fitting character. 2: The content will be shrinked if needed, so that the paragraph can be displayed completely without a wrap. 3: The character spacing will be decreased if needed so that the paragraph can be displayed completely without a wrap. 4: The font size will be increased or decreased until the paragraph is filling the object (vertical/horizontal). This option should only be used for the last paragraph as following paragraphs may be omitted. The options 2-4 should only be used to a certain extent to still guarantee the readability. |
0 1 2 3 4 Formula |
Truncate Wrap Shrink Compress Optimal fit Formula wizard |
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Page break |
If the text object can trigger a page break (see object property "Pagebreak") you can use this property to define that the paragraph won't be separated in case of a pagebreak. |
True False Formula |
Break Keep together Formula wizard |
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Force wrap |
If a long word cannot be wrapped, a line break will be forced after the last suitable character. |
True False Formula |
Yes No Formula wizard |
Line spacing |
Line spacing defines the distance between the paragraph's individual lines. You specify the distance in points: To achieve line spacing of 1.5 with a font size of 10 points, enter 5 points. Negative values are also allowed. You should always make the settings under Options > Objects > Object font. |
Number Formula |
Formula wizard |
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