Function Description

The Text button in the Objects group of the Features tab is used to draw text on the map. The functions in this group are only available when the currently editable layer is a text layer or a composite layer.

Functional Entry

• Features Tab->Objects Group->Text.

Operation Instructions

File Database Engine Type
Button	Description	Function and Operation Method	Schematic Diagram
	Draw Ordinary Text	Click this button to activate the ordinary text cursor ; Left-click on the map at the desired location for adding text to display a blinking cursor; Input the text. The text appears at the blinking cursor as you type; Press Enter to start a new line.
	Draw Label Along Line	Create text along a curve. Click this button to activate the along-line label cursor ; Left-click on the map at the starting point for the along-line label, then draw the text path by drawing a curve as usual; After completing the path, right-click to pop up the Alongline Text dialog; Enter the along-line label content in the edit box. Click the OK button to finish drawing the along-line label.

Tips:

• There are two ways to finish text drawing:
  • Right-click anywhere on the map outside the text box area.
  • Or click the text drawing button in the Objects group of the Features tab again.
• An along-line text is composed of several sub-texts. A single Chinese character, a continuous string of letters, or a continuous string of digits is considered one sub-text. A space occupies a character position but is not counted as a sub-object, primarily used to separate continuous characters or digits. For example, "中国北京BeiJing China" has six sub-objects: 中, 国, 北, 京, BeiJing, and China. The characters BeiJing and China are separated by a space. If you input continuous letters or digits, they will be treated as a single sub-object and will not be labeled along the line separately. To achieve the along-line labeling effect, use spaces to separate them at appropriate positions. You can view/modify the content of each sub-object in the Text tab of the object's Properties dialog.
• The orientation of along-line text follows the direction of the curve, so pay attention to the direction of the drawn curve when creating along-line text.
• The default text style for a newly created text dataset is: SimSun font, default font size 14, font color black, transparent background.
• If a text style is set when drawing text, it will be saved as the most recent style template and applied to subsequently drawn text.
• When drawing text, you can display superscripts/subscripts by inputting the prescribed expression format for superscripts and subscripts.