Properties reference

The panel down the right-hand side of the designer. Every control, what it does, and when it matters.

With nothing selected the panel edits the label and sheet. With something selected it edits that element. Select several and it shows the first one's values, but changes apply to all of them.

Label setup

What you see when nothing is selected.

Label size

Control	What it does
Common label sizes	A dropdown of nine standard sizes, from a 20 × 10 mm jewellery tag to a 100 × 150 mm shipping label. Choosing one sets width and height together.
Label width / height	Exact dimensions in millimetres, to two decimal places. If you have bought label stock, these numbers are usually printed on the box.
Corner radius	Rounds the label corners on screen. This matches pre-cut rounded stock — it does not cut anything, it just stops you designing into a corner that will not exist.

Sheet layout

Control	What it does
Paper size	A4, A5, A6, Letter, or thermal roll sizes. Choose Custom and set the dimensions by hand for anything unusual.
Paper width / height	The physical sheet, in millimetres.
Across	How many labels sit side by side.
Down	How many rows fit on the sheet.
Gap across / down	The space between labels. On die-cut stock this is often zero vertically and a couple of millimetres horizontally.

Page margins

Left, right, top and bottom, in millimetres. These are the unprinted borders of the sheet.

Most printers cannot print within about 5 mm of the paper edge. If your labels come out shifted, adjust these margins — do not scale the output. Scaling changes barcode bar widths and can make a perfectly good code unreadable.

At the bottom of the panel a line reads N labels per sheet. If the numbers do not fit the page, the status bar turns red and tells you by how much.

Element properties

What you see when something is selected.

Content

The text this element prints. Type plain words for something fixed, or wrap a column name in square brackets to pull it from your product data.

Fresh Today          → prints exactly that
[Product Name]       → the product's name
[Price|money]        → $4.50, symbol included
$[Price|number]      → $4.50, symbol typed by you
[Brand] · [Category] → both, with a separator

Note the difference in those two price lines. money supplies the dollar sign itself, so writing one as well gives $$4.50. Use number when you want to type the symbol, or place it as its own element.

Below the box, every field your design already uses appears as a chip — click one to insert it rather than typing it. Under that, Formatting filters expands to a list of all sixteen filters. Full detail on the data fields page.

Name

Optional. Whatever you type here is what shows in the layers panel. Worth setting on a complicated label — "Price panel" reads better than "$[Price|dollars]" when you are hunting for something in a list of fifteen.

Position and size

Control	What it does
X / Y	Distance from the top-left corner of the label, in millimetres.
Width / Height	The element's box. For a Line element, height is its thickness.
Rotation°	Degrees clockwise. Negative values turn anticlockwise.
Flip ↔ / Flip ↕	Mirrors horizontally or vertically. This is how you point an arrow the other way, or turn a triangle upside down.
Opacity %	How solid the whole element is. 100 is opaque, 0 is invisible. Affects everything about the element including its text.

Typing exact numbers here is more reliable than dragging when you need two elements to match precisely. Dragging is faster for rough placement; these boxes are for finishing.

Star

Only appears when a Star element is selected.

Control	What it does
Points	How many spikes, from 3 to 24.
Inner %	How deep the spikes cut, as a percentage of the outer radius.

Around 70–80% gives the shallow scalloped burst used for sale flashes — many points, shallow cuts. Lower values, around 40%, give a conventional pointed star.

Text

Appears for text, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, stars and arrows — anything that can carry lettering.

Control	What it does
Font	Ten common typefaces. These are fonts Windows ships with, so a label designed on one machine prints the same on another.
Size (pt)	Point size, in half-point steps.
Letter spacing	Extra space between characters. A small positive value on an uppercase banner makes it read considerably better.
Line height	The spacing between wrapped lines, as a multiple of the font size. 1.2 is normal; 1.4 is airier.
Text colour	The system colour picker, plus 22 named swatches covering the colours retail labels actually use.
Capitalisation	As typed, UPPERCASE, lowercase or Title Case. Applied at print time, so your underlying data is untouched.
B / I / U	Bold, italic, underline.
Alignment	Left, centre or right within the element's box.
Shrink text to fit	Reduces the font size until the text fits its box. Essential on data-bound fields, where one product name is three times longer than another.
Wrap onto multiple lines	Lets long text flow onto further lines instead of running off the edge.
Outline the text	Draws a contrasting edge around each letter. This is how white text stays readable over a photograph or a dark panel.

A contrast warning may appear here. If your text colour is too close to the fill behind it, the panel says so and suggests black or white. Labels are read in worse light than screens, so it is worth heeding.

Barcode

Only appears when a Barcode element is selected.

Control	What it does
Type	Twelve symbologies. A one-line description of what each suits appears underneath. See barcodes.
Print the number underneath	Shows the human-readable digits below the bars. Keep this on for retail; turn it off to save space when the code is only ever scanned.
Bar thickness	The width of the narrowest bar, from 1 to 6. Thinner fits more data into less space but needs a higher-resolution printer to stay scannable.

Fill and border

Control	What it does
Filled background	Turns the element's fill on. Off means transparent.
Fill colour	Picker plus swatches. Setting a colour clears any gradient.
Gradient	Seven preset two-colour blends, or None for a solid fill.
Fill opacity %	How solid the fill is, separately from the element's overall opacity. Useful for a tinted panel behind text.
Border (mm)	Outline thickness. Zero means no border.
Corner radius	Rounds a rectangle's corners.
Border colour	Appears once the border has a thickness.
Dashed border	A dashed rather than solid outline.

Shadow

Off by default. Turning it on reveals offset, blur and opacity controls.

Shadows print. They cost ink, and on thermal stock they can muddy small text into illegibility. Effective on a large poster, rarely a good idea on a 38 mm barcode label.

Show only when…

Makes an element appear on some products and not others. The mechanism behind a "SAVE 20%" flash that only shows on discounted lines.

Control	What it does
Column	Which field to test. "Always show" turns the condition off.
Test	is not empty, is empty, equals, does not equal, contains, is greater than, is less than.
Value	What to compare against. Hidden for the two emptiness tests, which need nothing to compare.

Text comparisons ignore capitalisation. Numeric comparisons strip currency symbols first, so $5.00 compares correctly against 10.

In the designer, a conditional element that would not print is shown faded rather than hidden — so you can still see and edit it. Full explanation on the data fields page.

Behaviour

Control	What it does
Theme role	Ties this element to a theme colour — main text, secondary text, accent, banner background, banner text, or label background. Elements with a role recolour together when you change theme. Leave it as "Not themed" to keep a colour fixed.
Include when printing	Untick to keep an element visible on screen but off the paper. Useful for guides and notes to yourself.
Locked	Stops the element being moved or resized. The cure for repeatedly dragging the background when you meant to grab the text on top of it.

Duplicate and Delete

At the very bottom. Duplicate places a copy 3 mm down and right, already selected. Delete removes the selection — and is undoable, like everything else.