Try putting just a couple of words on the layout, then with the
selector tool, double-click on the words, and in the "Text
Object" dialog box, finsh the string inserting line breaks where
you like. It's not "automatic line wrap", but it looks like it in
the final result.
- Bill Thoen
Tony Shepherd wrote:
>
> I have a long string, say 250 characters (cemetery headstone
> inscriptions), that I want to place on a layout, however being so long
> it is wider than the allocated space on the layout. Therefore I want it
> to be broken up into two or three or four lines depending on the total
> length.
> Has anybody done this?
> Wouldn't it be great if a text entitles on layouts could be given a
> height as well as a width, so the text would automatically wrap to the
> next line.
> Cheers
> Tony
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> Gore District Council, Gore, New Zealand
> Gore,The Brown Trout Capital
> www.mataura.com
> www.goredc.govt.nz
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