Aetiket Label Printer Default Text


Use Default Text

Aetiket Label Printer enables you to store default text with a label thereby simplifying data entry. For example, If you have an address return label that you use frequently, you would select the "Use Default Text" box on the setup page to automatically select the text for printing. Each different label type can store one default text item.

Installing Default Text

  1. Select "Preferences" from the Script menu.
  2. Chose your desired label type from the "Default Label Type" menu.
  3. Tab to select or click in the "Default Text" field.

    Default Text Example

  4. Type the text you wish to use.
  5. In the Setup page, simply click the "Use Default Text" option.

Known Issues

The size of the "Default Text" field in preferences is fixed, even though the labels come in many different sizes. This is unfortunately a case of "What you see is not quite what you get".

Default Text cannot be selected when importing labels.

Due to a limitation of FileMaker Pro, the text entered in the Default Text field does not retain any formatting such as bold, italics, or line spacing. The default setting for the printing label page is used instead.

Also, FileMaker Pro currently doesn't retain the paragraph formatting in standard copy and paste operations, making it impossible to duplicate these setting between duplicate label values.


Page last updated May 15, 1998

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