Specifications

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ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Position/Size
All fields have position and size properties. You can change these
properties by typing new values in a dialog box or by using the
mouse. For some complicated card designs that have mandated
sizes and positions for fields, you can prevent inadvertent changes to
fields by selecting Disable direct field movement or sizing for this
card design on the Edit Card Design Properties dialog box. See the
online help topics “Prevent changing a card field with the mouse”,
“Move a field”, and “Change a field’s size” for step-by-step
instructions.
Fonts
You can select from many fonts for the text, static text, and date fields
on your cards. ID Works Designer uses Arial, an OpenType font that
is supplied with Windows, as the default font. OpenType fonts are
preceded by an “O” in fonts lists.
Because the OpenType format is an extension of TrueType,
characteristics of TrueType fonts also apply to OpenType fonts.
Because TrueType fonts always produce the same results no matter
what printer the card is printed on, it is strongly recommended that
you use only these fonts in your card designs. The results of using
non-TrueType fonts with more than one card printer are
unpredictable. In addition, TrueType fonts can always be rotated.
Fonts are often installed by applications. Before using a font, make
sure it is available on each ID Works computer in your organization.
If the printer you will use to print cards has printer fonts installed and
you want to use them, you must select Display Printer Fonts and a
printer for the project on the Printer Fonts tab of the Edit Project
Properties dialog box. See the online help topic “Use printer fonts” for
step-by-step instructions. Printer fonts appear in the fonts list for card
fields preceded by a printer icon. They never appear in the fonts list
for Production Form fields.
You can use Type 1 fonts if you also have Adobe® Type Manager™
software installed on each computer in your system.
Variable fields that always contain characters let you specify that the
font size should automatically shrink to accommodate a large amount