1.4

left-align, right-align, or rotate graphical elements.
The toolbar buttons only represent a selection of the formatting options for each element. There
are no toolbar buttons to change an element's margins, or to add a border to it, for example. To
access all formatting properties of an element, you have to open the Formatting dialog. There
are two ways to do this:
l Right-click the element and select the type of element on the shortcut menu.
l Select the element (see "Selecting an element" on the previous page) and select the type
of element on the Format menu.
See "Styling and formatting" on page 398 for more information about the formatting options.
Format elements via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
It is recommended to use style sheets in your templates right from the start, even more so if your
communications are going to be output to different output channels, or if they consist out of
different sections (for example, a covering letter and a policy). With CSS you can give your
templates one look and feel. A style sheet can change the look of multiple elements, making it
unnecessary to format each and every element in the template, time and again, when the
company's layout preferences change, for example. See "Styling templates with CSS files" on
page 399.
Barcode
In PlanetPress Connect Designer, you can add a variety of barcodes to your template. The
supported Barcode types include 1d barcodes (the striped ones) and 2d barcodes (encoded
horizontally and vertically).
Adding a Barcode
Note
When generating Print output, you can add extra barcodes and OMR marks. The reason why you
would do this, is that at merge time more information is available about the actual output document.
The page count, for example, is not available at design time.
To add barcodes and OMR marks on the fly when generating Print output, select File > Print and
check the option Add additional content (see "Additional Text" on page 543) in the Print
Wizard. To have this done automatically, save this and other output options in an Output Creation
Page 228