TIETextLayer.EnableFormatting

Declaration

property EnableFormatting: Boolean;

Description

Specifies whether the text can be fully edited.
If EnableFormatting = True, the color, size and font of individual characters and words can be modified (and RichText can be used).
If EnableFormatting = False, the color, size and font of text is set for the entire layer using Font (and only Text can be used).

Note:
◼ The value for EnableFormatting specified by DefaultLayerEnableFormatting
◼ Setting EnableFormatting has no effect if RulerMode is iermLabel
◼ If you have not specified RichText, then Text will be used
◼ A toolbar is displayed when editing the text of a layer. This can be disabled by removing loShowRichTextToolbar from LayerOptions

Default: Specified by DefaultLayerEnableFormatting

Rich Text Limitations

The following are unsupported when EnableFormatting=True
◼ Text can only be rotated at 90 deg. angles
◼ A BorderRotate is not supported
◼ A TextOverflow is not supported
◼ Formatting is ignored when exporting to PDF or SVG
◼ It is recommended that you use solid fill color. Artefacts may be present with a transparent background.

Demo

Demos\LayerEditing\Layers_Text\TextLayers.dpr

Examples

// Set text as bold "ImageEn!"
TIETextLayer( ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer ).EnableFormatting := True;
TIETextLayer( ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer ).RichText := #123'\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0'#123'\fonttbl'#123'\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Tahoma;'#125#125'\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\b\f0\fs24 ImageEn!\b0\par'#125;
ImageEnView1.Update();

// Append a text layer
ImageEnView1.LayersAdd( ielkText );
TIETextLayer( ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer ).EnableFormatting := True;
TIETextLayer( ImageEnView1.CurrentLayer ).RichText := ...RTF formatted string...;
ImageEnView1.Update();

TIETextLayer.EnableFormatting