How to change report fonts
You can change the text font and size of a report's title, fields
and column text in the Report Font dialog. To show the dialog,
enter layout editing mode and
choose or
, depending on
whether you're working with a report or invoice.
The dialog has two panels — Columns for
setting column text font, size and line spacing, and Fields & Title for setting field and title font
and size.
Column text
To change column text font or size, go to the Columns panel and choose the font and size from the
appropriate popup menus. Click OK and
TimeCache changes the typeface and/or font size of this report
layout. This setting affects all columnar text in the report.
TimeCache also lets you adjust report column line spacing. Line
spacing in TimeCache is on a pixel basis (not the same as
typographic leading which many people are accustomed to). You may
need to experiment with different line spacing adjustments to get
the desired effect. You change the line spacing for column text by
clicking the up and down arrow buttons to the right of the line
spacing size indicator. You can try out your column font size and
spacing choices in the frontmost report window by clicking
Apply. This applies any text font, size
or spacing selections to column text only when the Columns panel is showing. Clicking OK applies all your text choices in this dialog. If
you click Cancel, any text changes
applied are removed.
Title, fields and labels
To set the font and size of the report title and/or fields, choose
the font(s) and size(s) from the appropriate popup menus on the
Fields & Title panel. Changes are
applied after you click OK. Changes to
fields apply to all fields and labels in the report except those
that have been changed on an individual basis (see below). You can
override ALL field text font and size settings (including
individual field settings) by clicking Force
update to check it. You can check out your field and title
font changes by clicking Apply.
Changing individual fields' text
attributes
You can also set the font, size and style of text for the report
title, and individual fields and labels in the header and footer
portions.
To do so, Control-click or right-click the title, field or label
and choose Show Tool Palette from the
contextual menu that pops up. Make any changes to the field's (or
title's) text attributes in the Layout Tools
palette. Any changes you make to an individual field will stick
with that field if you change the report's font or size as
described above, unless you check the Force
update checkbox in the global font dialog.
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