Task pane "Shape Properties"

What it does

The Shape Properties task pane in the axesFlip Designer displays the properties of one or more shapes selected in the Document view.

Use it for

• Analyzing the properties of the shapes in your document.
• Copying the values to use them in the expressions of your template.

How to use it

1. Open a PDF document.
2. Select one or more shapes in your document in the Document view.
3. Inspect the properties of the selected shapes in the Shape Properties task pane and use the copy buttons to quickly copy individual values.

Shape Properties – descriptions

• Type
  The type of the selected shape or shapes: text, path or image.

Position

You can display position values relative to either the page or the document.

• Page coordinates are measured in points and extend from the bottom-left corner to the top-right corner of the page.
• Document coordinates are measured in points and use a coordinate system whose origin is located at the bottom-left corner of the last page and extends to the top-right corner of the first page.

Page:

• Left
  The distance from the left edge of the page to the shape’s left edge.
• Right
  The distance from the left edge of the page to the shape’s right edge.
• Top
  The distance from the bottom edge of the page to the shape’s top edge.
• Bottom
  The distance from the bottom edge of the page to the shape’s bottom edge.
• Rectangle
  The bounding rectangle of the selected shape or shapes in page coordinates. If multiple shapes are selected, a single bounding rectangle for the entire selection is shown. If shapes on multiple pages are selected, the page rectangle is not available because page coordinates apply to a single page only. For more information about rectangles, refer to Base types.
• Page Index
  The page index of the selected shape or shapes.

Document:

• Left
  The distance from the left edge of the document to the shape’s left edge.
• Right
  The distance from the left edge of the document to the shape’s right edge.
• Top
  The distance from the bottom edge of the document (the bottom edge of the last page) to the shape’s top edge.
• Bottom
  The distance from the bottom edge of the document (the bottom edge of the last page) to the shape’s bottom edge.
• Rectangle
  The bounding rectangle of the selected shape or shapes in document coordinates. If multiple shapes are selected, a single bounding rectangle for the entire selection is shown. For more information about rectangles, refer to Base types.
• Page Index
  The page index of the selected shape or shapes.

Size

• Width
  The total width of the shape.
• Height
  The total height of the shape.

Distance

• Horizontal
  The horizontal distance between exactly two selected shapes. A positive value indicates the width of the gap between the shapes; a negative value indicates the width of the overlap between the shapes.
• Vertical
  The vertical distance between exactly two selected shapes. A positive value indicates the height of the gap between the shapes; a negative value indicates the height of the overlap between the shapes.

Text

• Font Name
  The name of the font used in the text shape.
• Font Size
  The size of the font in points.
• Unicode
  The Unicode representation of the text content.

Color

• Fill
  The fill color of the shape (e.g., background or text color), written in hexadecimal representation (e.g., #FFFFFF for white).
• Stroke
  The outline or border color of the shape, written in hexadecimal representation (e.g., #000000 for black).

Path

• Line Width
  The thickness of the line used in path shapes (e.g., borders or vector graphics).