Paragraph Properties

Property

Description

Value

Description

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

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

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

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

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

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

Line wrap

Specifies the behavior if the text is too long for a line.

So that long words are not truncated with value "1" (wrap), you can use the "Force wrap" option to ensure that a break occurs after the last suitable character.

Value "3" (compress) reduces the character spacing and should only be used to a limited extent in order to guarantee legibility.

With value "4" (optimal fit) the font size is varied in such a way as to fill out the object as completely as possible.

0

1

2

3

4

Formula

Truncate

Wrap

Shrink

Compress

Optimal fit

Formula wizard

Page break

With this property, you can specify that the paragraph is not to be separated in the event that a page break is triggered.

True

False

Formula

Break

Keep together

Formula wizard

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