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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V8.1.1)

3.4.1 Text properties

These properties apply to directly entered text, Newsfeeds, Text files and Clocks:

Text style

You can specify the amount of time the text item should be shown for, or the speed and direction for scrolling text.

The speed of the text is displayed in pixels per second.

NOTE: For best results, set the speed in multiples of 60, for example 60, or 120.

Font

Select the typeface, size and style of the Font to use. For more information see Fonts .

Text Color (foreground)

You can use the Pick Color button to set the text color.

See Colors for more information.

Background Color

You can use the Pick Color button to set the background color.

See Colors for more information.

Horizontal and Vertical Alignment

You can set the horizontal and vertical alignment properties for text. These Properties are dependent upon the text

movement direction.

Margins

You can set margins (blank space) around the edges of an a block of text. The margin values are expressed in pixels, and

must be zero or greater.

White Space

The white space settings determine how spaces, tabs and line breaks (new lines) are displayed. The White space option is

available for text files but not for directly entered text. Choose from the following options:

Display multiple spaces as single space and multiple newlines as single newline - this option ignores any white

space in the text.

Display spaces and newlines as entered this option displays the text with any white space you entered.

Character Set

You can select a character set if the text file does not explicitly specify one. The character set option is available for text

files but not for directly entered text.

The iCOMPEL can display text files in the following character sets:

DOS Latin (1 and US)

Macintosh OS (Western and Eastern Europe)

Microsoft Windows (Western and Eastern Europe)

Unicode

UTF-8