Text Box Options

The Text Box Options property box contains settings for the Add Text Box activity.

To configure Text Box Options

1. Add the Add Text Box activity to your workflow definition by dragging it from the Toolbox Pane and dropping it in the Designer Pane.
2. Select the activity in the Designer Pane.
3. Under Text Box Options in the Properties Pane, configure your text box.
4. Under Text, type the text that will appear on the text box. Click the Token button (right arrow) to use tokens.
5. Next to Font Size, select how large you want the text in the text box to be.
6. In the Appearance section, configure the following options:
• Fill Color: Select the background color for the text box from the drop-down menu or select a custom color by clicking More.
• If you select More, click Define Custom Colors and use the color selection tool or input a color using an RGB color code. Once a color is selected, click Add to Custom Colors. Select the custom color in the Custom Color group box and click OK.
• Opacity (%): Select how opaque the text box will be. If you select 100% opacity, the text box's background will be completely opaque: you will not be able to see the document behind the text box. If you select 1% opacity, the text box's background will be transparent. Type an opacity percentage between 1 and 100 or use the scroll box (up-and-down arrows) to select a percentage.
• Rotation (degrees): Select how many degrees (if any) the text box will be rotated when it is added to the page. Use the drop-down menu to choose 0 degrees, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or 270 degrees.
7. In the Border section, configure the following options:
• Color: Select the border color for the text box from the drop-down menu or select a custom color by clicking More.
• If you select More, click Define Custom Colors and use the color selection tool or input a color using an RGB color code. Once a color is selected, click Add to Custom Colors. Select the custom color in the Custom Color group box and click OK.
• Thickness (px): Specify how thick, in pixels, the text box's border will be by typing a number or by using the scroll box (up-and-down arrows) . If you specify 0 pixels, the text box will not have a border.
• Style: Select a border style from the drop-down menu. The border can be a solid line, a line with spaces in it, a dotted line, or a combination of lines and dots.
8. In the Placement section, configure the following options:
• Page: Configure which page the text box will be added to by typing a number, using the scroll box (up-and-down arrows) , or clicking the Token button (right arrow) to use tokens.
• Location: Select the location on the page where the text box will appear.
• To specify a custom location: In the Location drop-down menu, select Custom. Specify the X and Y coordinates for the text box in pixels from the Top/Left of the page by typing a number or by using the scroll box (up-and-down arrows) . Click the Token button (right arrow) to use tokens.



• Merging Options: If you have more than one text box in the same location, you can choose how the text boxes will be displayed. Under Merging Option, use the drop-down menu to select a display style.

Note: Text boxes are considered to have the same location if they have the same upper-left coordinate, if their centers are close to each other, or if one text box's borders are completely inside another text box.

Note: Text boxes will only be merged if they have the same protection level.



• None: Places the new text box on top of the existing text box.
• Replace: Replaces the existing text box with the new text box.
• Append Text: Adds the text of the new text box to the existing text box.
• Cascade: Places the new text box slightly offset from the existing text box. Show me what this looks like.



Note: The size and shape of the text boxes and the distance between the cascading text boxes will depend on the resolution of the imaged page. The lower the resolution, the larger the text boxes will appear. Show me what this looks like.