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2013-09-23

Text Properties

The Text Properties lets you change all of the properties for any text object in your document. The options available are different in the Windows and Mac OS versions of the software.

To open the text properties in Windows

1. Click on the text object of which you want to display the properties.
2. Click in the Window menu, then click Properties.
3. The Properties window appears or, if it is already present, is brought to the front and selected.

To open the text properties in Mac OS

1. Click on the text object of which you want to display the properties.
2. Click on Items, then Show Object Properties. You can also right-click on the text object and select Show Object Properties from the drop-down menu.
3. The Object Properties dialog appears.

Available Options

All objects share some properties. To see these shared properties (the "Object", "Frame" and "Printing" groups), see Properties Panel.

Content Group

Option	Description
Alignment horizontal	Horizontal Text alignment (Left, Centered, Right, Justified).
Alignment vertical	Vertical text alignment (Top, Centered, Bottom)
Copy fitting	Copy fitting is a feature that will automatically shrink text by reducing the font size when there is more text than the text box can hold. The font size will be reduced to the font size needed to fit the text in the text box. However, text will not be shrunk beyond the specified minimum font size. When the text needs to be resized, all text will be resized step by step until the text fits or the minimum font size is reached. Minimum font size: When Copy Fitting is enable, the minimum size the font can reach is 1, by default the minimum font size is 8. Allow line breaks is a feature which automatically replaces some of the blank spaces between words by line breaks, in a way that each line fits in the viewable window. In PrintShop Mail "Allow line breaks" is set to Yes by default. When Copy Fitting is set to "Yes", individual words can be broken due to word wrap. When Copy Fitting is set to "No", text only fit if the individual words are not broken. Text will break on spaces only. Note: Copy Fitting is not allowed for linked objects.
Remove Empty Lines	This setting allows you to remove empty lines in a text box. When set to "No", empty lines will be shown in the text box. This is useful where the variable is for instance an address and some records in the database have empty fields. If you select this function the empty lines caused by the empty field(s) will be preserved. When set to "Yes",  both  empty lines which are caused by empty fields in the database and white lines which are manually inserted will be removed. When set to "Only in variables", all empty lines will be removed in the variables only, static empty lines will be preserved.
Vertical Layout	This setting is specifically designed for vertical text with Asian characters which need to be printed vertically, other characters will simply be rotated 90°. This feature is supported under Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista.