Fonts and text-decoration
Font-face, color, style, weight, alignment and lineheight
Font and text-decoration in property dialogs
All property forms of objects that include font and text-decoration settings, will allow you to control the visual aspects of the text output.
Rght-click the object(s) in question and select [Properties].
Locate the [Text-attributes] page to edit font and text-decoration.
Adjusting the font attributes of a textbox
Text-style
Common font and alignment properties
The first section of the font-attributes allows you to set
- font-family
Specifies the font to use ( eg. Arial )
- font-size
Size in points
- font-weight
Bold or normal
- font-style
Italics, Underline
- text-alignment
Left, Center, Right and Justify
Line-height
Controlling output line height
When text output will generate more than a single line of text, it is often desirable to control the overall line-height to make a text fit within a predefined area.
Increasing line-height can also be used to enhance readability.
The line height can be se to one of the following
- Exact
Line-height will be exactly the number of points specified
- Percent
Line-height will be calculated as a percentage of the selected font size ( points )
- Multiplied
Line-height will be calculated by multiplying the font size ( points ) with the specified number
Same text, different line-height
Select several textboxes at the same time
Click on multiple textboxes while holding down the CTRL and A (to mark everything) or holding down the SHIFT key while clicking the elements with mouse. Once all desired textboxes are selected, you can change the font for all of them simultaneously by clicking a font change button as shown in the picture above. The same applies for color change and font-size.