Specifications

22 Plan and Create the Card Design
ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Types of Card Fields
Card fields are the building blocks of all card designs. You must
create a card field for each item you want to print or encode on the
card. You define each card field by type. The type specifies the field’s
contents.
ID Works Standard and Enterprise Designer applications include 14
types of card fields: text, photo, date, signature, barcode, magnetic
stripe, smart card, variable graphic, static text, static graphic, non-
printable area, line, rectangle, and ellipse.
Text Field
Text fields print information that changes from one card to the next,
such as cardholder data. The data originates in the database or
directly from the Production Form, where the operator captures it.
You can specify the font and color attributes of a text field, as well as
rotate it. See “Fonts” on page 37.
You can also specify that the size of the text will automatically shrink
if necessary to fit a large amount of text in the field. The font size
shrinks to a minimum of 6 points. If at 6-point type the text still does
not fit, characters are dropped from the end.
See the online help topic “Add a text field to a card” for step-by-step
instructions.
Text field