Text Option Interaction

Many text plug-in rendering transformation options interact with each other. A change in one setting can cause a conflict with other settings. For example, assume you want to have 100 characters per line and 85 lines per page on US Letter paper with one-half inch margins. Under these conditions, you could not use a 9-point font size because it only produces 93 characters per line and 80 lines per page. To resolve this conflict you could either select another Font Size, smaller Char Count values, or smaller page margins. You could also change the paper size or orientation, but this might not solve the problem entirely. Changing the paper size provides more length but reduces the available width. Changing the orientation provides more width but reduces the available length.

You can avoid many conflicts by using any process methods. A process method adjusts other rendering options to match one or more option values deemed critical to properly processing a text file.

When you use a process method, you enter the appropriate paper and font values. Remember to leave room in the page margins for any headers and footers.