Font Settings

Owned by Blair Darragh (Deactivated)
Last updated: 29 May, 2016 by Graeme Taylor
2 min read

Description of the tool

This tool allows you to define the font settings for Redline text that is added to the map. With this tool, you select a colour, font family (style), size and weight of text.

How to use the tool

Prerequisite:

None

Steps:
  1. Click on the Redline Font Settings tool.
    Redlines Font Settings
  2. If no font colour setting is required then tick the none option. 
    Redlines Font Settings - None
  3. To set a font colour, click on a colour from the panel of colour patches.
    Redlines Font Settings - Colour
  4. To set a specific font family, click on the Family option and select a font type (Serif, Sans-Serif or Monospace).
    Redlines Font Settings - Family
  5. To set a specific font size, click on the Size option and select a size (Small, Medium or Large).
    Redlines Font Settings - Size
  6. To set a specific font weight, click on the Weight option and select a weight (Lighter, Normal, Bold or Bolder).
     Redlines Font Settings - Weight

  7. From Weave version 2.5.16: To set a rotation for the text, use the Rotation slider. For smaller increments, the left and right arrows on the keyboard can be used instead of the mouse.