Text Format/Style/Spacing options

I am still working in iWork '09 to give Apple a chance to deal with the bugs and dropped features in the 2013 release. I'm giving the new Pages a test run now to see if it is ready for prime time.
I noticed a Lines popdown menu in the Spacing pane of the Style tab of the text Format inspector. The options (Lines / At Least / Exactly / Between) seem non-standard. Is there any documentation on them? I couldn't find anything in Pages Help.
Related questions, perhaps:
Apple seems to have revised its image placement options in new Pages. I presume this to make export to ePUB easier/more consistent/whatever, but that's guesswork on my part. Does anyone know of any paper where the features of the latest iWork releases are discussed, especially as concerns eBook production?
Thanks in advance,
Richard Hurley
Grass Valley MultiMedia

Lines is multiples of the largest object, character on the line of text. It is useful for varying size objects such as inline images, tables, textboxes and shapes. It can make individual line spacing vary within a paragraph.
At Least does what it says, sets a minimum line space but can go larger if required.
Exactly sets a fixed line space that does not change no matter what the size of anything on the line. This spaces a paragraph uniformly.
Between is the standard single spacing between lines plus or minus what you set here.
Peter

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[svn] 3148: You can now use CSS styles to set the default text format for TextView.

Revision: 3148
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-08 15:01:15 -0700 (Mon, 08 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
You can now use CSS styles to set the default text format for TextView. It no longer has any formatting properties. It supports the entire set of Gumbo text format styles.
SkinnableComponent and Group now also support all these styles. However, skins such as ButtonSkin, TextInputSkin, and TextAreaSkin continue for now to specify instance styles on their TextBox, TextGraphic, and TextView, in order to give them a Gumbo look rather than a Halo look. So if you try setting, for example, the fontSize on the Application, it doesn't yet affect the text format of a Button, TextInput, TextArea, etc. unless you remove the instance style in the skin.
Reviewer: Glenn
Bugs: -
QA: Lots of new stuff to test!
Doc: No
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/component/TextArea.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/component/TextInput.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/component/TextView.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/core/Group.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/core/SkinnableComponent.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/graphics/TextBox.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/graphics/TextGraphic.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/flex/graphics/graphicsClasses/TextGraphicEle ment.as

Nevermind guys - I did it using the 'rb_on.selected' command on the "on" radio button if the .txt file variable was "on", else the "off" radio button is selected.
Thanks for taking a look though!
Shaun

Unable to update plugins because the "Plug-in Status" page returns in plain-text format

From within the Add-ons Manager, I clicked on "Check to see if your plugins are up to date". When the status results page displayed, it was in plain-text format, like this:
Potentially vulnerable plugins
Plugin Status Action
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These plugins are up to date
Plugin Status Action
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Go back to that page. Then, while holding down the shift key, reload the
page. You can also try these; 
Clear the Cache '''''Firefox/Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"''''' 
and 
Remove Cookies '''''Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"''''' 
If there is still a problem,
'''''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Start Firefox in Safe Mode]'''''
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'''''Firefox Options > Advanced > General'''''. 
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The custom style mapping option text still maintains the word formatting or it shows a style override in the InDesign style - how do I correct this?

When I tell the custom style mapping option to format a Word style (from an rtf document) with the InDesign style, the text still maintains the word formatting or it shows a style override in the InDesign style. I have a large document that needs to import the styles correctly and I've followed the tutorials exactly however the placed text is still hanging onto the word RTF styles. I want the rtf text to convert to my InDesign styles completely without overrides.

I actually need the cell styles. That's what sets my font, spacing, and GREP styles.
I did find the solution today. In the table style or table setup, I needed to set the "Stroke Drawing Order" to "Column Strokes in Front". Even though it was previously set to "Best Joins" and I had no strokes for rows or for the table borders, it just wasn't giving priority to my dotted columns.
Thanks for your response though!

How to provide text formatting options to user from a text field

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My requirement is - in the interactive form, a comments field needs to be provided where user should be able to enter text with formatting options like
Headers
indentations
bold/italic
bullet points and numbers
Once user enters the formatted texts in a text field, data needs to be displayed/printed in the same format. Could you help me on how to provide these formatting options to the user for a particular text field?
I understand that once I define the text field with format XHTML (with RTF), user formatting can be captured and displayed in the same way. But I am not sure on how to provide the formatting options for the text field.
Thank you,
Madhu

Hi,
if you select a text field for Rich Text and the press Ctrl + E you'll get a bar for all available text formatting options in Acrobat/Reader.

Text formatting options

Hi,
Is there a list somewhere which outlines more text formatting options than what is shown in the FAQ?
In particular I'm wondering how to make text that does not suppress white space other than using the "code" tag.
Also, the insert link option a shown above does not seem to work, or am I just stupid?
Thanks.

Dude wrote:
Also, the insert link option a shown above does not seem to work, or am I just stupid?That one has not been working for a couple of years or so. There should be a thread about it in this forum.
Instead, I'm using [ url=<insert link here> ] text [ /url ] (without the extra spaces in tags). Normal html link tag might work as well.

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For some reason I can't figure out how to enable more text formatting options on our blog. We used the blog module on a muse template. I customized the module to apply fonts we used on our website. The main text on the blog is Lato.
Link to blog: Coupar Consulting
When we go in to write a post you can use the bold/italics options and it shows up in the edit window as shown in the screenshot below:
The font is not correct, but because I set the font in the module to use Lato it does show as lato when you publish, see preview below (notice no bold or italic text):
What am I missing??
Thanks in advance!!

Use your browsers console and inspect tool. This stuff becomes very easy.
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var,optgroup
font-style: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
Line 34 ish in - http://www.couparconsulting.com/css/site_global.css?3869595648
This overides the font bold style on strong.

Css text formatting

most css text formatting options can be found under the font or text family of properties
(ie font-size, font-family, text-align, text-shaddow ect)
but there are a few which do not fall under the text or font properties
letter-spaceing, line-height and colour are some examples
why are these not covered under font/text
it would be usefull if i knew that environments such as dreamweaver would hint at all avaliable options when i typed in text or font
and are there any other stand alone ones which i didnt mention.

Because that's the way the CSS 2.1 standard was written. They are not listed under font/text because they are not listed that way under the CSS 2.1 spec. Reading through the spec will let you see how the authors of the spec organized things: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/.
Dreamweaver does hint at them when you start typing in code-view (via autocomplete). But you have to know at least the first letters of the CSS code you're trying to write.
The issue you're experiencing lies more with the organization of the CSS 2.1 specification then with Dreamweaver. Could Dreamweaver maybe make it easier to discover the other CSS attributes (like line height) that impact font/text? Probably. But it may just be easier to learn the language.

Changing text size in form field (rich text formatting enabled)

Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I've created an interactive PDF with form fields with "Rich Text Formatting" enabled.
My client has filled in the fields and would like to make the text bigger. When right-click, there are only options to change the text style (bold, italics etc) but nothing to change the text size. I'm not keen on disabling and then re-enabling the "Rich Text Formatting" options as the text have been formatted (bold, italics, superscript, subscript etc) and approved, and this will remove all the existing formatting.
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Acrobat 9.4.6
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Thanks so much!! Really appreciated!
Strangely enough, I found the Form Field Text Properties dialogue box by randomly choosing "Hyperlink" in the right-click options. Who would have thought!

Radio buttons - text format

Hi everyone!
I can't seem to get this to work! I want the text on the radio buttons to wrap correctly as they reach the end of the stage (right now they just keep going forever. Here is the code I am using:
package {
 import flash.display.MovieClip;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFormat;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 import flash.events.Event;
 import fl.controls.RadioButton;
 import fl.controls.RadioButtonGroup;
 public class QuizQuestion extends MovieClip {
 private var question:String;
 private var questionField:TextField;
 private var choices:Array;
 private var theCorrectAnswer:int;
 private var theUserAnswer:int;
 //variables for positioning:
 private var questionX:int = 25;
 private var questionY:int = 150;
 private var answerX:int = 25;
 private var answerY:int = 200;
 private var spacing:int = 25;
 public function QuizQuestion(theQuestion:String, theAnswer:int, ...answers) {
 //store the supplied arguments in the private variables:
 question = theQuestion;
 theCorrectAnswer = theAnswer;
 choices = answers;
 //create and position the textfield (question):
 questionField = new TextField();
 questionField.width = 775;
 questionField.wordWrap = true;
 questionField.multiline = true;
 questionField.text = question;
 //trace (questionField.width);
 questionField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 questionField.x = questionX;
 questionField.y = questionY;
 addChild(questionField);
 //Text Format for radio buttons
 var txtFmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
 txtFmt.font = "Arial";
 txtFmt.blockIndent = 2;
 txtFmt.color = 0x000000;
 txtFmt.size = 11;
 txtFmt.leading = 4;
 //create and position the radio buttons (answers):
 var myGroup:RadioButtonGroup = new RadioButtonGroup("group1");
 myGroup.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);
 for(var i:int = 0; i < choices.length; i++) {
 var rb:RadioButton = new RadioButton();
 rb.setStyle("textFormat", txtFmt);
 rb.textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 rb.label = choices[i];
 rb.group = myGroup;
 rb.value = i + 1;
 rb.x = answerX;
 rb.y = questionY + questionField.height + 25 + (i * spacing);
 addChild(rb);
 private function changeHandler(event:Event) {
 theUserAnswer = event.target.selectedData;
 public function get correctAnswer():int {
 return theCorrectAnswer;
 public function get userAnswer():int {
 return theUserAnswer;
As you can see, I managed to get the text field style of the radio buttons to use "txtFmt" as the style:
rb.setStyle("textFormat", txtFmt);
The issue:
If I add:
rb.textField.width = 352;
rb.textField.height = 60;
rb.textField.multiline = rb.textField.wordWrap = true;
inside the "for loop" that creates the radio button, it just makes my text go all crazy! It only extends the text about 30 pixels after the radio button and then starts wrapping it, making it all stack on top of each other. How can I make it create the radio button, show the text on the text field, wrap around once it reached the edge of the stage and the continue the next button.
thank you in advanced,
Rafa.

Kglad,
I added the trace command to the 1st frame of my FLA, and it shows the "test" message on the output window.
I am looking thru my code, but can't figure what could be overwritting it. This is what I have on the first AS file:
package {
 import flash.display.MovieClip;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFormat;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 import flash.events.Event;
 import fl.controls.RadioButton;
 import fl.controls.RadioButtonGroup;
 public class QuizQuestion extends MovieClip {
 private var question:String;
 private var questionField:TextField;
 private var choices:Array;
 private var theCorrectAnswer:int;
 private var theUserAnswer:int;
 //variables for positioning:
 private var questionX:int = 25;
 private var questionY:int = 150;
 private var answerX:int = 25;
 private var answerY:int = 200;
 private var spacing:int = 25;
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 //store the supplied arguments in the private variables:
 question = theQuestion;
 theCorrectAnswer = theAnswer;
 choices = answers;
 //Text Format for readio buttons
 var txtFmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
 txtFmt.font = "Arial";
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package {
 import flash.display.MovieClip;
 import fl.controls.Button;
 import flash.events.MouseEvent;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 public class QuizApp extends MovieClip {
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 private var quizQuestions:Array;
 private var currentQuestion:QuizQuestion;
 private var currentIndex:int = 0;
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 private var prevButton:Button;
 private var nextButton:Button;
 private var finishButton:Button;
 //scoring and messages:
 private var score:int = 0;
 private var status:TextField;
 public function QuizApp() {
 quizQuestions = new Array();
 createQuestions();
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 createStatusBox();
 addAllQuestions();
 hideAllQuestions();
 firstQuestion();
 private function createQuestions() {
 quizQuestions.push(new QuizQuestion(1, "1. Which of the following statements about the government auditor’s use of audit standards is least accurate? ",
 1,
 "Government auditors may be subject to a variety or range of audit standards.",
 "Government auditors are not subject to audit standards for some types of work.",
 "If the audit organization follows The Institute of Internal Auditors’ (IIA’s) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards), those Standards prevail over laws and regulations.",
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 prevButton = new Button();
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 nextButton.label = "Next";
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 nextButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextHandler);
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 status.y = stage.stageHeight - 80;
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 addChild(quizQuestions[i]);
 private function hideAllQuestions() {
 for(var i:int = 0; i < quizQuestions.length; i++) {
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 private function firstQuestion() {
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 currentQuestion.visible = true;
 private function prevHandler(event:MouseEvent) {
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 if(currentIndex > 0) {
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 /* if(currentQuestion.userAnswer == 0) {
 showMessage("Please answer the current question before continuing");
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 currentQuestion = quizQuestions[currentIndex];
 currentQuestion.visible = true;
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 showMessage("That's all the questions! Click Finish to Score, or Previous to go back");
 private function finishHandler(event:MouseEvent) {
 showMessage("");
 var finished:Boolean = true;
 for(var i:int = 0; i < quizQuestions.length; i++) {
 if(quizQuestions[i].userAnswer == 0) {
 finished = false;
 break;
 if(finished) {
 prevButton.visible = false;
 nextButton.visible = false;
 finishButton.visible = false;
 hideAllQuestions();
 computeScore();
 } else {
 showMessage("You haven't answered all of the questions");
 private function computeScore() {
 for(var i:int = 0; i < quizQuestions.length; i++) {
 if(quizQuestions[i].userAnswer == quizQuestions[i].correctAnswer) {
 score++;
 showMessage("You answered " + score + " correct out of " + quizQuestions.length + " questions.");
I also have a timer running on my FLA, but even if I comment out the timer, I still get the same issue.
thank you for your help,
Rafa.

Just curiosity: Format Style Styles...

Hi
I've never fathomed this out, partly because I've only used mail for... mail so haven't felt the need. However, I'm currently attempting to develop an efficient task management activity (a GTD system for those familiar), so am using the To Do's and Notes aspects of Mail (and Spaces) in a serious way now and it's proving really good.
For some reason the To-do's in Notes loose text formatting on a (seemingly at the moment) random basis and if I could create a style to apply it would make this just less irritating until I see the pattern and figure out what's prompting the format loss. I format them to be larger... just for easier reading.
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Message was edited by: BluePlumUk

Second time I've kind of resolved my own problem...
The dialogue I'm referring to above (the one that reveals itself 'within' whichever window is in focus) is still a complete mystery to me.
However, I've achieved what I needed to. Select a small section of text styled the way one wants it (Font, bold, size etc.,). Then Apple Mail -> Format -> Text.
In the resulting dialogue click on the little cog (bottom left) and choose 'Add to Favorites'. Be ready for Mail to crash. However, on rebooting mail, the style will (presuming it behaves as it did for me) be listed as a favorite in the Format -> Text dialogue. Finally, select the text to format and choose Format-> Text -> Favorites -> Thestylecreated and hey-presto, jobs a good-un...... except for the small detail that the line spacing seems tighter as though it's not picked up...
Hope it helps anyone else.
I'm still intrigued about the other dialogue... is it specifically only showing/dealing with the styles in the window it appears in? I'll test it when I can be bothered or the opportunity presents itself.
Have a good day.

I'm trying to copy a text layer style, but it's grayed out

All text layers in my file is the same problem. The copy text layer is not available. But I can paste a layer style. I tried on another PSD and same thing. I reset my preferances folder and still no luck. This has happened to me once before, and I can't for the life of me remember what I needed to do to fix it. Anyone know the problem?
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Solved it myself and am posting the 'solution' for others that are not frequent users of PS..
I was trying to copy the font and color of my text to a bunch of other text layers. Come to find out that it's not possible (as far as I know) without doing the formatting using blending options. Instead, I used the regular text formatting tools. All's good now.

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Acrobat 9.3.0 for Mac.
Here is the scenario: I used the Compare command to see the changes between 2 PDFs. The resulting file some edits are inserts and some are deletions. I want to print a comments summary only showing the text edits. In the Compare Option pane, I select Text and deselect Images, Annotations, Formatting, Headers/Footers, and Backgrounds. Now on the screen I see inserts are highlighted in blue and deletions are marked with sort of a caret and vertical bar symbol. So all looks good at this point. However, when I show the Comments List, I see addtional comments that indicate "Replace - The following text attributes were changed: fill color." Those comments do not appear in the page view unless I check the Formatting check box to show them. With Formatting unchecked, I print a comments summary and all of the "Replace - Fill Color" comments" appear on the resulting comments summary.
I only want to show text edits, not text formatting changes. So questions are:
1. Why, when the Formatting checkbox is unchecked, do the text formatting comments still appear in the comments list when they do not appear on the page display.
2. How can I print only the text content edits and not show the text formatting changes when using Print Comments Summary.

Hi,
You can set ExecuteWithParams as default activity in the task flow then method activity to return total no of rows passing to Router activity if your method has value 0 then call Create insert operation else do directly to page.
Following idea could be your task flow
Execute With param (default) > SetCurrentRowWithKey > GetTotalNoOfRows (VOImpl Method)
|
v
Router
1. If pageFlowScope outcome is 0 then call CreateInsert > MyPage
2. if pageFlowScope outcome > 0 then MyPage
hope it helps,
Zeeshan

Can't select vertical text formatting since Win 7

Please help.
Have recently upgraded to win 7 and now I cannot select any text formatting options in the drop down text menus. I can see them, but the drop down menu buttons don't work.
Has anyone had this happen?
I have spent so much time on the computer and it's so hard to get any work done.
Advice would be much appreciated
I would like to go back to XP but the computer guy says that's not possible.
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ZeeBud

Thank you so much for responding Peter. I feel one step closer to being able to get my work done.
Your solution means that I can now use the tools in the tools palette, but no luck with being able to use the text selection drop down menus.
It's quizzical. I can select the fonts by clicking through file the file path> type> font. Just not through drop downs.
Any thoughts anyone?
Zj

Crystal report : Export to Text format from BI Launch pad

Hi,
We are facing issue in exporting the Crystal report to text format option from BI Launch pad view mode. Currently BI launch pad doesn’t support export to Text format option for crystal report in view mode. But export to text format option is feasible in schedule mode. But customer is not interested in exporting the reports through schedule mode.
Please advise, if we have any alternative way of exporting the crystal report to text format option from BI Launch pad.
Thanks,
Chinnu A

Hi Chinnu,
The question is better suited to be asked in the BI Platform space.
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