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Required Edition
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Professional, Automation, Enterprise Automation
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The text object in BarTender supports a variety of markup languages. A markup language is a language that uses tags or codes to define the layout or format of the text. Using markup languages in BarTender allows you to contain text formatting in a database, or to dynamically format the contents of a text object using VB Script. BarTender supports the following markup languages: Rich Text Format (RTF), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).
Rich text format, commonly abbreviated as RTF is a format that standardizes text formatting across many platforms. By using RTF with BarTender, you can apply advanced formatting to the content of a text object, such as changing the color of the text, adding bullets or numbering, indenting paragraphs of text, or inserting symbols.
HyperText Markup Language, commonly abbreviated as HTML, is a markup language that allows you to format objects using tags. It is predominantly used to format websites, but can be used with BarTender to format a text object. BarTender takes the HTML and converts it to rich text format (RTF). Because of this conversion, BarTender does not support all applications and features of HTML; it only supports the features available in both HTML and RTF.
Extensible Application Markup Language, commonly abbreviated as XAML, is another markup language that allows you to create objects, format text, and layout objects using tags. In BarTender, you can use XAML to modify the appearance of a text object by aligning text in tables, coloring text, or adding images to a text object.
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