Text

Settings

Text settings tab.

Duration

• Number of seconds to play for. Used when row = auto. If 0 then duration = 1 day.

Start Early

• Text will be created this number of milliseconds before shown.

Background Colour

• Colour of the output behind the text.

Background Media

• Image or video to show in the output behind the text.

Fonts

• A list of fonts that can be applied to the texts.

Double click a font or press ➕ or ✏️ to see the following window,

ID

• A unique id. This will be selected when applying this font to text (see below)

Font Name

• Text using this front will use this installed font e.g. Arial or Calibri.

Size

• Text using this front will be this size.

Bold

• Text using this front will be bold.

Italic

• Text using this front will be italic.

Text

• A list of texts to display in the output.

Each one has its own position, colour, font and style.

By selecting the Wrap, Ellipses, Position, Padding and Drop Shadow this will open the following options.

Content

• The text to show in the output.

Font ID

• The text will use the font settings with this ID (see above).

Colour

• The text will be displayed in this colour.

Horizontal and Vertical Alignment

• How to align the text in its position area (see below).

Wrap

• The text will wrap if it doesn't fit it its position area.

Ellipses

• If the text doesn't fit it its position area, ellipses will be appeneded to the truncated text.

Position

• Define the area, in pixels, where the text will drawn in the output.

• Text will be positioned within the area according to the alignment settings.

• Text will be truncated to fit in the area.

• Text will be wrapped and have ellispes according to those settings.

• If unchecked, the whole output area is used.

Padding

• Set padding, in pixels, to apply inside the position area.

• This can be used to shift alignme text away from an edge by a number of pixels.

Drop Shadow

• Add a drop shadow to the text.

• Set its colour, x & y offset and amount of blur.