User manual

Designing Labels

Designing a Basic Label

13857L-003 11/29/2011

The screen should show the following:

Figure 21 • The text object is placed on the label

Object Positioning Guidelines

Guidelines are available to assist you in positioning objects on the label. The functionality of

guidelines is similar to grid, but they allow you much more freedom regarding positioning,

moving, and combining positioning delimiters.

Although the guidelines may be visible while designing the label, they will not be printed on

the final product, regardless of whether the

Display Guidelines setting is turned on or off.

Create Guidelines

Create vertical and horizontal guidelines:

• Click anywhere in the ruler area and drag the line out of it (the top ruler contains

horizontal, and the side ruler contains vertical guidelines).

• Finally, you can open the View menu and access the commands there.

Using Guidelines

The guidelines may be moved at any time with the drag of a mouse. If they are dragged back to

the ruler area, they are deleted. It is possible to toggle between displaying and hiding the

guidelines, either by using the menu or right clicking them.

The guidelines can be hidden with the Ctrl+H shortcut key combination, and when they are

hidden, the Snap to Guideline functionality is also disabled. The menu also includes a

Remove

all Guidelines

command, which removes all the guidelines on the label.

Holding down the SHIFT key while dragging objects allows you to temporarily turn on the

Snap to Guidelines function.

Guideline Properties

Double-click a guideline or right click a guideline and choose Edit Guideline Properties to

open the Guideline Properties dialog window. The dialog allows you to enter the numeric

positioning value, choose the horizontal or vertical guideline type, or remove the individual

guideline.

Note • This functionality is only available in ZebraDesigner Pro