Font color for measure distance tool caption

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chrkuhlmann
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Font color for measure distance tool caption

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Hi,

sorry if this is a stupid question, but I could not find it in the documentation:
Is there a way to change the font color of the distance tool caption (the measurement result)? I have a pdf with black background and I need to change the font color to something other than black. The tool properties only show me line and fill colors for the lines and arrows and also in the presets and preferences I cannot find a setting for this.

Thanks for your support.

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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by Willy Van Nuffel »

Hi,

I am afraid that changing the font characteristics of the caption text for Dimension Lines is not yet possible with the current version of PDF-XChange Editor (V9.1 build 355.0).

However, it seems to be possible with some competitor application. So, it is not a restriction in the PDF specification.
(search Google for "changing dimension markup appearance")

@Tracker Software Support, can you please make a feature request for this ?

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Willy
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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by Vasyl-Tracker Dev Team »

Hi guys.

There is one way:

1. Dbl-click the distance annot to show popup to it.
2. Select all existing text in popup.
3. Go to the Format tab and setup text format.
*4. To make this custom text style default for all distance-annots in the future - use 'Make Default' button on this Ribbon-tab.

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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by Willy Van Nuffel »

Hi Vasyl,

Many thanks for the solution, it is not an obvious one, but it works like a charm !

Would it still be possible to add some options like font type, color, etc. to the Properties pane for the Dimension tool ?

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Willy
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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by Paul - Tracker Supp »

Indeed we can and will Willy.

As always, the ticket is for internal use only and this is just for your references: RT#5658: Feature Request :: Editor :: Ability to customize easily the text style for distance-annotation

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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by chrkuhlmann »

Hi Vasyl, Paul, Willy,

Thanks for pointing out the (not quite obvious) way to do this.

I would also like to have the properties show these text settings. It's good to know that this is already on the list of enhancements.
I think there are other comment tools as well that would benefit from having the text properties available without selecting text (e.g. for multi-edits of several comments at the same time), but maybe there's a ticket for that too :) .

Anyway, thanks for the help, this makes working with the distance tool on black backgrounds way more useful.

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Chris
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Font color for measure distance tool caption

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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by jotess »

+1! This way for changing the font colour is really complicated and cumbersome. And it doesn't work for multi edits. I have often wished for a better way to do this.
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Re: Font color for measure distance tool caption

Post by TrackerSupp-Daniel »

Hello, jotess

Thank you for writing here. I have added your support to the ticket. Hopefully we can see an increase in priority on this item at some point, but for now I cannot make any promises on a timeline.

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