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Format Label Dialog Box

You can use the Format Label dialog box to format labels of your charts. This topic describes the options in the dialog box.

Designer displays the Format Label dialog box when you right-click a label of a chart and select Format Label from the shortcut menu, or double-click a label in a chart.

This dialog box contains the following tabs:

• General Tab
• Fill Tab
• Border Tab
• Font Tab
• Orientation Tab

Designer displays these buttons in all the tabs:

OK

Select to apply your settings and close the dialog box.

Cancel

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Apply

Select to apply all changes and leave the dialog box open.

Help

Select to view information about the dialog box.

General Tab

Use this tab to specify general properties of the label.

Text

Specify the text in the label.

Icon

You can specify properties of the icon to display in the label in this box.

• Style
  Select the style of the icon. Designer enables the other options in the Icon box when you do not select "no icon" from the drop-down list.
• Icon Text Gap
  Specify the distance between the icon and the label text.
• Fill
  Specify the fill pattern of the icon. To edit the fill pattern, select the color indicator and specify a color or effect using the color palette. You can also type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
• Transparency
  Specify the transparency of the fill pattern.
• Width
  Specify the width of the icon, in pixels.
• Height
  Specify the height of the icon, in pixels.

Alignment

You can specify the alignment of the text and icon in this box.

• Text
  Select the alignment of the text in the label.
• Icon
  Designer enables this option when you select to display icon in the label. You can use it to specify the alignment of the icon relative to the text in the label.

Sample

This box displays a preview sample based on your selections.

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Fill Tab

Use this tab to specify the fill pattern of the label.

Color

Specify the color of the label. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.

Transparency

Specify the transparency of the label.

Sample

This box displays a preview sample based on your selections.

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Border Tab

Use this tab to specify properties for the border of the label.

Border Type

Select the type of the border.

• none
  Select if you do not want to show the border.
• raised
  Select to show 3-D border that appears as if it is raised off the page.
• recess
  Select to show 3-D border that appears as if it is pressed into the page.
• shadow
  Select to show two shadowed borders, beneath and to the right of the object.
• solid
  Select to use single-line border.

Color

Specify the color of the border. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.

Transparency

Specify the transparency of the border.

Line Style

Select the line style of the border.

Thickness

Specify the width of the border, in pixels.

End Caps

Select the ending style of the border.

• butt
  Select to end unclosed subpaths and dash segments with no added decoration.
• round
  Select to end unclosed subpaths and dash segments with a round decoration that has a radius equal to half of the line width.
• square
  Select to end unclosed subpaths and dash segments with a square projection that extends beyond the end of the segment to a distance equal to half of the line width.

Line Joint

Select the joint style of the border.

• miter
  Select to join path segments by extending their outside edges until they meet.
• round
  Select to join path segments by rounding off the corner at a radius of half the line width.
• bevel
  Select to join path segments by connecting the outer corners of their wide outlines with a straight segment.
• joint round
  Select to join path segments by rounding off the corner at the specified radius.

Sample

This box displays a preview sample based on your selections.

Path

You can specify the fill pattern of the border in this box.

• Outline Path
  Select to use outline path for the border.
• Fill Path
  Select to use whole path for the border.

Dash

You can specify the dash size of the border in this box if you select a dash line style for the border.

• Auto Adjust Dash
  Select to adjust the dash size automatically.
• Fixed Dash Size
  Select to use fixed dash size.

Radius

Designer displays this option when you select the Line Joint option of "joint round". You can use it to specify the radius of the joint.

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Font Tab

Use this tab to specify the font properties of the text in the label.

Font

You can specify the font style of the text in the labels in this box.

• Font list
  This drop-down list contains all the font faces you can select to apply to the text.
• Font Size
  Specify the font size of the text.
• Font Color
  Specify the font color of the text. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
• Transparency
  Specify the transparency of the text.
• Rotation
  Specify the rotation angle of the text around its center, in degrees. The default value is 0.
• Shearing
  Specify the gradient of the text.

Effects

You can specify the special effects of the text in the labels in this box.

• Style
  Select the font style of the text. It can be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Strikethrough
  Select the style of the horizontal line using which to strikethrough the text. It can be one of the following: none, thin line, bold line, and double lines.
• Underline
  Select the style of the horizontal line under the text. It can be one of the following: none, single, single lower, bold line, bold lower, double lines, bold double, patterned line, and bold patterned. When you select "patterned line" or "bold patterned", Designer draws a line or bold line in the pattern of the text.

Web Report Studio and JDashboard do not support underlining chart text, therefore, this property is ignored when the chart runs in Web Report Studio or is used in a dashboard.

• Superscript
  Select to raise the text above the baseline and change the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
• Subscript
  Select to lower the text below the baseline and change the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
• Embossed
  Select to make the text appear to be raised off the page in relief.
• Engraved
  Select to make the text appear to be imprinted or pressed into the page.
• Outlined
  Select to display the exterior border around each character of the text.
• Shadowed
  Select to add a shadow beneath and to the right of the text.

Sample

This box displays a preview sample based on your selections.

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Orientation Tab

Use this tab to specify the rotation angle for the text and icon in the label.

Angle

Specify the rotation angle of the text and icon in the label. When you change the rotation angle in the text box, the red line in the spin box changes correspondingly, and vice versa.

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