Adding Captions

Captions in Layouts

Custom Text (or Captions) can be added to layouts as a way to easily add details such as Client and Event Names, to dynamically add date and times or to add data captured in Surveys from Breeze Photo Booth apps or other third party utilities.

In this Guide

• Adding a Caption
• Position
• Position
• Fonts
• Maximum Lines
• Word Wrap
• Tokens

Adding a Caption

To add a caption, click the Edit Captions button in the left hand panel. Also ensure that the Show Captions box is checked. This will open the Edit Captions dialogue window, where you can then add in your text, adjust font size, alignment and color, as well as positioning.

You can add multiple Captions (up to 12) by selecting another caption (eg Caption 2) from the Edit dropdown list, and checking the Enable caption box.

*Captions may span more than one line and can contain tokens such as %d for the date. See Tokens for more details.

Positioning Captions

The size, position, and rotation of captions can be edited by left-clicking on the caption to select it and then using the mouse or keyboard cursor keys.

Move

Move the caption by moving the mouse to the center of the text block (a hand cursor will be displayed). Then hold down the left mouse button and drag the caption to the new position.

*Hold down the shift key to limit the movement to a horizontal or vertical direction only.

Alternatively, use the left, right, up, and down cursor keys to move the photo one pixel at a time.

*Hold down the shift key and use the cursor keys to move the photo 10 pixels at a time.

Resize

Resize the caption by moving the mouse to one of the circular control handles in the corners (the resize cursor will be displayed). Then hold down the left mouse button and drag the corner to resize the text block. The size of the text will shrink or grow proportioannly as you scale it.

Rotate

Rotate the caption by moving the mouse to the circular control handle at the end of the red dashed line in the center of the text bock (the rotate cursor will be displayed). Then hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to rotate the photo.

Alternatively, hold down the ctrl key and use the left and right cursor keys to rotate the caption in 1/2 degree increments.

*Hold down the ctrl and shift keys and use the left and right cursor keys to rotate the photo in 15-degree increments.

Manually Editing the Position

You can enter the caption position and angle directly by right clicking on the caption, and selecting Edit caption from the menu. This will display the Edit caption dialog.

Pixel Adjustments

The left and top entries specify the distance in pixels of the caption from the left and top edges of the page respectively. The layout in the print editor window will be updated automatically as you change the settings. The angle entry specifies the clockwise rotation of the caption in degrees.

*If the caption isn’t visible, you can press the Move to center button to center it on the page.

Font Size, Color and Alignment

Maximum Lines

The Line word wrap length in pixels setting specifies the maximum length of a line of text (in pixels) before it is word wrapped to start a new line of text.

Word Wrap

The Maximum number of lines setting specifies the maximum number of lines that are displayed.

*These settings prevent very long captions from running off the bottom of the page or into other elements. The maximum extent of the text is shown by a dashed line.