7.5

Fonts and Styles
A style is a specific set of properties that describe how a font is used within a PlanetPress Design object. Styles are created at
the document level and can be used in any object where text is displayed, including data selections, text boxes, human-read-
able barcode text and business graphics.
While creating your PlanetPress Design document, you can use multiple styles as well as unique fonts for each style. This chap-
ter explains how to create and manage styles, how to install and manage fonts, as well as how to troubleshoot font issues.
Create a Style
To create a style:
1. Do one of the following to display the Style properties dialog box:
l In the Structure area, right-click on the Styles folder and choose Style.
l Choose Home | Style.
The Style properties dialog box appears.
2. If you want to preview the style as you work, click the Preview button to display the Style Preview. Click the Preview
button a second time to hide the Style Preview. You can show or hide the Style Preview at any time as you work in the
Style dialog. As you work the Style Preview updates to reflect any changes you make to the properties in the Style
dialog. See To work in the Style Preview: for help using the Style Preview.
3. In the Style properties dialog box, click Style properties, enter a name for the style, indicate whether or not you
want to set it as the default style, and set the font properties for the style.
Name: Enter a name for the style. Although PlanetPress Design supplies a default name, it is recommended you
choose a name that reflects the purpose of the style. A meaningful name makes it easier to distinguish one style from
another in a document, and thus makes the document easier to design and maintain. Names cannot begin with a
number, and can contain only the following ASCII characters: underscore, upper and lower case letters of the alphabet,
all digits 0 through 9. If you use an underscore in the name, it should not appear as either the first or last character of
the name as this may cause internal conflicts in the software. Names are case-insensitive and must be unique (no two
elements in a document can have the same name). Names can be a maximum of 50 characters in length. Finally, Plan-
etPress Talk variable and command names are reserved words; you cannot use any of these reserved words as a
name.
Default style: Select to make this style the default style. The default style is the style PlanetPress Design associates
by default with each new object it creates. It is the style that appears by default in the Style box in the Basic attributes
properties of an object when you create that object. The current default style appears in bold in the Structure area.
Font Definition
Font type: Select the type of font for the style. PostScript fonts are strongly recommended to improve printer per-
formance and reduce the file size of a document. The type you select determines the contents and availability of the
remaining options. The Default font type option in the User Options dialog box determines the font type that appears
here by default.
Refresh Fonts List button: Click to refresh the list of available fonts. You use this button if you added fonts to, or
removed fonts from, your PlanetPress Design installation after you began your current PlanetPress Design session.
PlanetPress Design automatically refreshes the list of available fonts each time it starts.
Font name: Select the font you want to use for the style. The Font type you selected determines the contents of this
box. If the font you want to use is a Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic font, you should choose the regular version of the font in
this box, and use the Bold and/or Italic buttons to adjust its Bold and Italic properties. For example, if you want to use
the Helvetica Bold font, select Helvetica in this box, and click the Bold button. This increases the flexibility of the style;
rather than create a new style for each version of the font, you create a single style and adjust the properties as nec-
essary when you reference the style. Note that if the font you select exists in the PPD file of the document (i.e. is
printer-resident), PlanetPress Design does not include the font when it performs a hard copy preview or installation of
Fonts and Styles
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