Annotation Text editor

Functionality

The Annotation Text editor allows you to edit text items stored in an Annotation Text object.

With the Annotation Text editor, you can:

Additionally, you can cut, copy and paste text items to and from the clipboard, and change the working scale.

The Annotation Text editor has a menu bar, a context-sensitive menu, and a toolbar. All changes that you make in the annotation text object are continuously stored.

You can also edit an annotation text object in table form. This may provide quicker, easier or more precise possibilities to edit texts, positions and other settings like font, font sizes, colors, etc. To open an annotation text object as a table, you can double-click the object in the Catalog, or open the File menu in the Main window, choose Open As Table and select an annotation text object.

Tip:

While annotation text is edited in the Annotation Text editor, other annotation types like texts, legends, boxes, North arrows, scale bars, grid lines, graticule, bitmaps or metafiles are edited with the Layout editor.

Note:

For vector maps that use a coordinate system of type latlon, an annotation text layer cannot be properly created. It is advised:

To start the Annotation Text editor:

The Annotation Text editor is automatically started when you create a new annotation text object. For more information, see the Create Annotation Text dialog box.

To edit an annotation text object which is displayed in a map window, open the Edit menu, choose Edit Layer and select the annotation text layer. For more information, see ILWIS objects : annotation text objects.

To insert more annotation text items:

In the Create Annotation Text dialog box, you will usually base a new annotation text object on an existing polygon, segment or point map. You will then automatically obtain texts (class names, IDs, or values) of all polygons, segments or points in that map.

To add more or other text items:

The Add Text / Edit Text dialog box will appear. When you use the Edit menu or the context-sensitive menu, you may have to position the text later on.

To change the text string, font, font size, colors, etc, of text items:

To change text and settings of a text:

The Add Text / Edit Text dialog box will appear in which you can edit the existing text, the font in which this text item appears, the font size, the color, etc.

To change settings of multiple selected texts:

The Edit Texts dialog box will appear in which you can edit the font in which all these text items appear, the font size, the color, etc.

To change only one setting for one or more selected text items: choose the Change command from the Edit menu or from the context-sensitive menu. You can either change the font, the font size, whether the selected text(s) appear in bold, italics or underlined (toggles), the color, the justification, whether rectangles around the text should be transparent (toggle) and the rotation. For font, font size, color, justification and rotation, a little dialog box will appear; the other settings are toggles without dialog box.

To change only one setting for one or more selected text items, you can also use the following short cut keys on the keyboard:

   

Shift + F

to select another font;

Shift + S

to change the font size;

Shift + B

toggle between bold / not bold;

Shift + I

toggle between italics / not italics;

Shift + U

toggle between underlined / not underlined;

Shift + C

to select another color;

Shift + J

to select another justification method;

Shift + T

toggle between transparent / not transparent;

Shift + R

to select another rotation.

To select multiple text items:

To position annotation text items:

To cut, copy and paste selected text items:

Select one or more text items, and:

You can also use the Cut, Copy and Paste commands on the Edit menu or on the context-sensitive menu.

To make duplicates of annotation text items:

To delete annotation text items:

Select one or more text items, and:

To change the working scale:

You can change the working scale which determines the relation between font sizes on your screen and on the printer. The working scale is usually the scale on which you want to print your maps later on. To change the working scale: open the File menu and choose Options. The Options dialog box will appear in which you can specify another value for your working scale.

Subsequently, a question will be asked: Update all font sizes?

To exit the Annotation Text editor:

All changes that you make in the annotation text object are continuously stored.

For more information, see also Appendices : Keyboard shortcuts and Appendices : Mouse functions.

See also: