4. The Screen Setup of PhotoLine

4.34 The Text Styles

Text Styles are used to give long texts a uniform look.

A text style stores the information how to format text. There are two types of text styles:

If a style was assigned to a text, the text stores the style name. Whenever the text style is modified later, every text with that style will automatically be modified, too.

Text styles can be created hierarchically. A new style can inherit most of properties of an existing one and differ only by some settings. If the base text style is modified, the inheriting text style will take all setting inherited from the base style.

Text styles are saved within the document file. Aside from the document text style list there is a global one which can be used with every new document. If a text style is used the first time in a new document, the global text style list will be copied to the document and future text style operations will work with the local copy.

The text style dialog is structured in three parts. At the left there is a list of the existing text styles. The names of the styles are user-defined. The first style is always No Style. If you assign it to a text, a previous style assignment is cancelled.

Beside that there is a description of the active text style. Base styles, that don‘t inherit from any other style, show a complete description of all settings. Descended styles only show the name of the base style and the differing settings.

At the bottom there are available commands: