Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide
Chapter 6: Manipulating Text Blocks
The Paris Designer User Manual
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To ‘clip’ a text block:
1.
Click on the View tool, then click on the text block to be clipped. The
View/Change Text Block Settings dialogue for the text block will be
displayed.
View/Change Text Block Settings dialogue for the text block will be
displayed.
2.
Select the Data Clipping Active checkbox to activate the adjacent Settings
button.
button.
3.
Click on the Settings button to display the Set Clip Attributes dialogue.
4.
Edit the Clip Attributes as required, when finished, click on OK. You will be
returned to the View/Change Text Block Settings dialogue.
returned to the View/Change Text Block Settings dialogue.
5.
Choose OK to exit the dialogue. The selected lines and characters will be
displayed in the text block.
displayed in the text block.
6.
If you want to make any adjustments to the clipped data, repeat the process.
WARNING!
The Clip function will affect any existing events in the text block (such as an
Update Field event).
Update Field event).
It is highly recommended that events are added to an original or repeated text
block after it has been clipped.
block after it has been clipped.