Styles
Use Styles to define the various fonts and font styles that you will use in the Fields and Text objects in your Forms, ensuring a consistency of appearance. Styles is a register in Standard Accounts, and a setting in the other Standard products.
If you are using Standard Accounts, open the Style register by first ensuring you are in the System module and then clicking the [Styles] button in the Master Control panel. If you are using one of the other Standard products, first open the 'Settings' list by clicking the [Settings] button in the Master Control panel or using the ⌘-S keyboard shortcut. Then, double-click 'Styles' in the list. In both cases, the 'Styles: Browse' window will open, listing the Styles you have previously entered.
Double-click a Style in the list to edit it. To enter a new record, click [New] in the Button Bar or use the ⌘-N keyboard shortcut. Alternatively, click on a Style similar to the one you want to enter and click [Duplicate] on the Button Bar. When the record is complete, save it by clicking the [Save] button in the Button Bar or by clicking the close box and choosing to save changes. To close it without saving changes, click the close box.
- Code
- The code for the Style.
- Comment
- Any description.
- The Comment will be shown in the 'Paste Special' list that you will use when assigning Styles to Fields and Text objects in Forms, so it should be descriptive enough to make the selection of the correct Style easy for all users.
- Mac Font
- Paste Special Fonts available on your computer
- Specify the name of the font.
- Mac Size
- Specify the font size in points.
- Styles
- Select one of the available style types.
- Character Spacing
- You should use this field in Styles that will be used when printing bank giro forms, where a fixed character spacing is required. Specify here the spacing in pixels from the start of one character to the start of the next. Usually this will be six pixels or less.
- You can only use Styles with a Character Spacing in Fields and Text objects with a left or right justification. The Character Spacing will have no effect in Fields and Text objects with a centre justification.
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