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Properties for textboxes

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when you choose (in this case 119) textboxes in the comments panel, you can only change the border and fill color, but you can not change the text color of all of the selected text boxes, for that you have to go manually into each and every textbox it seems, si that right? That would be a little tedious...

edit: it would have also been nice to be able to batch-change the font style and size as well!
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Re: Properties for textboxes

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Hello MedBooster,

Text boxes are complex objects.
There is the "outside" box itself - that has it's own properties like border style, width, background fill colour, and then you have the "inside" text object that has it's own Text Size, Text Colour, Font etc. properties. So yes - indeed you can not mass change the font of many text objects at once I am afraid and this as far as I am aware is not planned to be changed.

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Re: Properties for textboxes

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Tracker Supp-Stefan wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 12:13 pm Hello MedBooster,

Text boxes are complex objects.
There is the "outside" box itself - that has it's own properties like border style, width, background fill colour, and then you have the "inside" text object that has it's own Text Size, Text Colour, Font etc. properties. So yes - indeed you can not mass change the font of many text objects at once I am afraid and this as far as I am aware is not planned to be changed.

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Maybe you could consider it? I would assume I am not the only one that would appreciate having such a feature.
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Re: Properties for textboxes

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Hello all,

You should be able to select any number of text boxes and then assign a common format to everything, including the text inside, like so:

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Hello David.P,

Many thanks! I should have thought of that myself!!!

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Re: Properties for textboxes

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David.P wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 7:48 pm Hello all,

You should be able to select any number of text boxes and then assign a common format to everything, including the text inside, like so:


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Thanks for the tip. I guess they would all have to be on the same pag e then ...

Think about how useful it would be to maybe have a filter search bar for the comments as well – to for example be able to change the font style/size/color, as well as the rectangle shape, color, outline color, etc... for just specific textboxes for example, with a specific name, or containing a specific word/words.

That would be super super useful. :D :D
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Re: Properties for textboxes

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Hello MedBooster,

It is not a problem to select e.g. all annotations from the same person, or all rectangles - and then right click any of them on any of the pages - and you can apply the default properties to the existing selection even if they are on multiple pages:
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Re: Properties for textboxes

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Tracker Supp-Stefan wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 8:43 am Hello MedBooster,

It is not a problem to select e.g. all annotations from the same person, or all rectangles - and then right click any of them on any of the pages - and you can apply the default properties to the existing selection even if they are on multiple pages:
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Ok, seems like a decent workaround, thanks for the help. >:)
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