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AddText Positioning the text

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You may choose whether to position the new text relative to a reference point or to align it to the field boundary.

•	In the Positioning panel of the addtext plugin, click reference point or field button.

	A "page" diagram is displayed with a "field" area shown as a cyan block. To set up the reference point to be used, click on a corner of the page, the top-left corner of the block or around the block's text origin. This automatically sets up the offset direction.
Select	Reference point		Offset
	Page:	top-left	Down-right
		top-right	Down-left
		bottom-right	Up-left
		bottom-left	Up-right
	Block:	top-left	Right
	Block:	text-origin	Down-right
			Down-left
			Up-left
			Up-right

There are nine alignment options for specifying the position for the text, indicated by three rows of three options. The currently selected option is shown in bold characters: click on the appropriate alignment word to select it. Specifying horizontal and/or vertical offsets moves the string inwards, away from the field boundaries.

•	Horizontal alignment:

o	Left Left edge of first character's cell aligned to left boundary of the field. Offset moves position to the right.

o	Centre Mid-point of string aligned to centre-line of the field. Offset moves position to the left.

o	Right Right edge of last character's cell aligned to right boundary of the field. Offset moves position to the left.

•	Vertical alignment:

o	Top row Top of character cell aligned to the top boundary of the field. Offset moves position down.

o	Middle row Text baseline of character cell aligned to the mid-line of the field. Offset moves position down.

o	Bottom row Bottom of character cell aligned to the bottom boundary of the field. Offset moves position up.

Line spacing

An addtext field may contain several lines of text (provided that the Single line option has not been ticked – see Entering text).

•	Enter the height from the baseline of one line to the baseline of the next in the Vertical spacing edit-box. For example: 0.25 when chosen Positioning unit is inches, 18 when chosen Positioning unit is points 0.635 when chosen Positioning unit is centimeters.

(To change the height of the character glyphs in the lines of text, change the font size, see Font selection.)