Text Area elements are used to place text boxes on the secured document and serve a wide variety of uses.
Settings Fields
Size / Position
X: The X value for the top left position of the element. All documents are defined on an X,Y coordinate system where 0,0 is the top left of the document.
Y: The Y value for the top left position of the element. All documents are defined on an X,Y coordinate system where 0,0 is the top left of the document.
Width: The width (distance from X) of the element.
Height: The Height (distance from Y) of the element.
Foreground/Background: This setting determines if the element should be in the foreground or background when layered against the original document. Certain elements in original documents (e.g. data tables) are typically rendered in the finished PDF as an image, requiring an element placed by Docrity to be explicitly placed in the foreground to be visible in the secured document.
Text Properties
Edit Text: Opens the Edit Text Dialog for changing the main text displayed in the element.
Align: This setting controls the texts alignment relative to the left edge of the text boxes. Available options are left, center, and right aligned.
Typography
Font (
): Select the font the element will use. Additional language based fonts may be available here based on your Locale Settings.
Color (
): The color the element will use. Colors can be selected using a color picker, Hex value, or RGBA values. Alpha (A) defines the elements transparency.
Size(
): The font size the element will use.
Line Spacing(
): This value controls the spacing between each line of text.
Case(
): Using this control you can force all characters in the element to ToUpper (Uppercase) or ToLower (Lowercase).
Rotation: This slider controls the Text Area’s rotation.. Increasing the slider will rotate the Text Area in a clockwise direction.
Background Properties
Color (
): The background color the Text Area will use. Colors can be selected using a color picker, Hex value, or RGB values.
Border Properties
Color (
): The color of the border. Colors can be selected using a color picker, Hex value, or RGB values.
Size: The thickness value for the border around the Text Area. Setting this value to 0 disables the border.