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Use the Markup Language property page, which you can open from the Markup Language Text Properties dialog, to specify the markup language that you want to use to format a markup language container text object. Additionally, you can use this page to modify the dimensions of the object and align the contents of the object.

Markup Language

• Markup Language: Specifies the markup language that is used to draw the text object.

• Ignore page size and setup in markup language: Specifies that all page setup options that are defined in the text object are ignored. Instead, the options that are configured in the Page Setup dialog are used. Otherwise, the contents of the rich text object will fit into the specified size. Available when one or both of the following conditions are met: the object contains more than one data source, and/or the data source that is selected does not contain embedded data.

Size and Scaling

• Size and Scaling: Specifies how BarTender resizes or scales the object and text to appear on the template.

  • Automatically adjust object height to hold contents: Specifies that BarTender defines the height of the text object based on the height of the object's content.

  • Fixed object dimensions: Specifies that BarTender does not resize any objects or text. Therefore, any text that extends beyond the boundaries of the object is hidden.

  • Automatically scale content to fit object dimensions: Specifies that BarTender resizes the content of the object to fit the size of the object.

• Object Dimensions: Specifies the width and height of the selected object.

• Content Alignment: Specifies the vertical and/or horizontal alignment of the content that is contained in the selected object when the object's content is smaller than the object's dimensions. Available when Fixed object dimensions or Automatically scale content to fit object dimensions is selected.

• Content Scaling: Specifies whether the content of the text object is resized automatically or manually. Depending on the Size and Scaling option that is selected, the following options are available:

  • Scale: Resizes the object's content by the specified percentage. For example, an object that is scaled at 200 percent will double in size. Available when Fixed Object Dimensions is selected.

  • Minimum: Specifies the lower percentage threshold that BarTender can resize the object's content to. Available when Automatically scale content to fix object dimensions is selected.

  • Maximum: Specifies the upper percentage threshold that BarTender can resize the object's content to. Available when Automatically scale content to fix object dimensions is selected.