Formatting marker labels
Oct 28, 2013
There seems to be a large white space in my marker labels that I cant remove. When I resize the label, a scroll bar appears, that in preview only displays the white area with no content. I think I looked everywhere to change it, but I am at a loss. Unfortunately, the option in "format shape" are grayed out. Any advice on how I can format the marker labels to fit the text?
If I can't, I will build my own markers with layers....I'd rather not as I have a TON of these to add. Thanks for your help everyone...
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Hi Steve, this can be a bit tricky to fix but try selecting the blank space after the period in the last sentence and then clicking delete. The label text has some invisible paragraph tags at the end which are causing the extra white space. I think this happens sometimes when you copy and paste text into the marker.
Hi Nancy,
Thanks for your reply, but this happens when I just type text as well. I have attached a short screencast adding a marker and adding text to the marker label. When I try to adjust the label, the scrollbar appears even though there isn't any text. I made sure to highlight anything under the text and deleting it, but it wouldnt even allow me to select anything under the text entered. Thanks so much for your help.
Hi Steve,
Just wanted to weigh in with some "misery loves company" support . I've run into this issue as well, also simply when typing in text.
Typically I CAN get SL to pay attention to the H/W I want for the label text box without extra space, but only after fiddling. I keep using the sizing arrows to resize the height and width and eventually the extra space goes away. That is, I keep making the label box wider/taller/narrower/shorter until it's fixed.
Thanks Becky and Nancy for helping Steve out here.
Yahooo! After a lot of clicking, I found the magic key combo....and of course it is sooo easy.
Step 1: Type your text into the label
Step 2: Adjust your label box to the desired size. A scroll bar will appear on the right. Just ignore it.
Step 3: Here's the magic. Once you have the size you want, simply click anywhere in the text on your label. The scroll bar disappears and label is the size you wanted.
By the way, if you want to reduce the white space around the top, use the Articulate font (body). It has less padding around the font and therefore less white space.
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Awesome Steve! I learned something new today. Thanks so much. I have always found these text labels a pain to work with so you have made my life easier.
Thanks Steve for the update!
Hi Ted,
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Thanks!
Hi everyone
Is it posible to remove the labels?
I like the desing of the markers, but i want to use it as a trigger, so i don't need de label!
Thanks!
Erica
Hi Erica and welcome to Heroes!
If you'd like to just use the marker icon and not have the pop up for the title and description you can set your marker to audio only as described here.
Hope that helps!
Yes, Ashley, that is verry usefull!! thank you!
One other thing that i am trying to figure out...
Is it posible to change te size of te marker? I figured out how to resize other object, but i cant seem to change te marker size...
I would also like to give my compliments to this verry usefull side, and the speed of your response.
Hi Erica,
Markers can't currently be resized.
Welcome to the community
Dawm!
On a similar note to the above I want to add padding (add an internal margin) around the text of the marker but this option is grayed out in the Format Shape dialogue box. Currently the text sits pretty much at the edges of the marker and I have a client that specifically wants a margin between the edge of the marker and the start of the text.
Any suggestions?
Hi Kay,
There isn't an option to change the padding or formatting of the text box within a marker label. It does sound like a goo idea for a feature request though which you're welcome and encouraged to submit here.
Thanks Ashley for the quick response. I will submit a feature request.
Kay
Hi Kay,
I was just looking for exactly the same thing and stumbled across this thread. I don't know if you had a chance to submit a feature request yet, but I did as Ashley suggested and submitted the following via the request page:
The "Format Shape" dialogue box is currently available when attempting to edit various attributes of a marker, however the "Text Box" options are grayed out.
It would be quite useful to have these options accessible so as to be able to change the padding or formatting of a text box within a marker label.
Bonus points if one were able to use the "Apply to All" feature to all edited markers within a specific slide, scene, or project.
Thanks for your consideration!
Hopefully this is something that could be incorporated into a future release!
Cheers........Joe
Thanks Joe for sending along the feature request - and we appreciate the detail as well!
Thank you Joe. To go along with that, the biggest problem I have with the text boxes is that in the full view of the presentation, the text runs into the sides and makes it a little hard to read at times. This can be hard for others as well. I hope this can be looked into soon. We appreciate the feedback.
Hi Joe
Yes I did submit a feature request. It would be great to be able to adjust these.
Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Regards
Kay
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Little trick you can use to add more space on the left and top side of the text label:
use the paragraph formatting tool.
before text: i.e. 0.1pt add space on the left side.
line spacing: i.e. multiple 1.5 add more space on top of the tile.
It seems unusually difficult to grab the edges of the marker window and resize it - any trick to this? I have to hover around forever until I get the resize tool.
I figured it out. Hover over the middle area of the side you want to resize.
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