Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker - Manual (Page 7)

object. You don't need to create new text objects to display them. Instead, either select a
layout that has a tracks list, or open the tracks dialog (by clicking the "tracks" button on the
toolbar) and check the "Display tracks on current label" button.
When you edit the text in a tracks list object, the changes will get relayed to all the other label
faces in your current file. So if you've got tracks list text objects on all your labels, editing the
disc label to change the title of song 1 from "Let the Good Times Ambulate" to "Let the Good
Times Roll" will cause the title to change on the front, inside, and back labels as well. Changes
you make to the text by editing it in the Tracks Dialog The_Tracks_Windowwill also get sent to
all the labels.
Formatting changes - fonts, italics, etc. - will not get sent to other labels. Only changes to the
actual text will get passed on to the other labels. In addition, changes to the track number field
won't get sent to the other labels. If you make a mistake and mess up one or more of the track
number fields, hiding and showing the tracks objects field (which you can do from the Tracks
Dialog) The_Tracks_Windowwill cause the tracks to get renumbered.
The Tracks List Header Bar
When you select a tracks text object, you should see, in addition to the traditional title bar,
sizing frame, resize bars, and toolbar, a columns header bar. The header bar has these
functions:
* Left-clicking on a header bar column will select all the text in that column, so that you can
apply whatever column-wide effects strike your fancy.
* Left-clicking on the border between columns and dragging it will allow you to resize columns
(in fixed-width columns mode) or the space between columns (if you're in variable-width
columns mode).
* Right-clicking on the header bar will pop up a menu that lets you hide and show individual
columns and toggle between fixed-width columns and variable-width columns modes.
Fixed Width vs. Variable Width Fields
In fixed-width mode, all rows of a field will be the same width. If you set the "track name" field
to be 2.5 centimeters wide, every track will have a 2.5-centimeter-wide track name. All rows
will line up exactly underneath each other, like the rows in a spreadsheet or a table in a word
processor.
In variable-width mode, each column of each row will be exactly as wide as required to display
the amount of text. The title for "You've Certainly Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" will be
wider than the title for "Louie Louie." The rows in the text object will not line up directly
underneath each other, unless all their text fields happen to be exactly the same length.
However, in variable-width columns mode, there will be a fixed amount of space between
columns. If you specify 1.2 centimeters after the track number column, every row will have 1.2
centimeters of blank space between its track number and the field that follows it, no matter
how wide individual track numbers may be. When you're in variable-width columns mode and
you drag the column borders in the header bar, you're actually editing the width between the
columns rather than the widths of the columns themselves.
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