Changing the padding around text items

You can change the padding around text items individually, and for each edge independently. This affects the distance between text and erased backgrounds and borders. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the text items whose padding you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the Erasure padding properties, individually or together, in the Text group.

    • L changes the padding between text items and their left edge.

    • R changes the padding between text items and their right edge.

    • T changes the padding between text items and their top edge.

    • B changes the padding between text items and their bottom edge.

  3. Change the values in the value fields for the edges whose padding you want to change.

Result

The padding around the selected text items is changed. Increasing the values increases the padding, decreasing the values decreases the padding. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the default padding of all text items project-wide on the Text page in Engraving Options. However, this does not allow you to change the padding of each edge independently.

You can change the default padding between text and each border edge for individual paragraph styles in the Paragraph Styles dialog. However, paragraph style border padding settings are only used when Border is activated for the corresponding paragraph style.