Container placement

[dramabear]

Does anyone know how to specify the placement of a container in a label legend?

I know that I can grab the handle and move individual containers around but I want to uniformly change the default placement of some of my containers but have had no succes in being able to do this.

Any suggestions?

[Cris with no H]

A new label legend, perhaps? The center of the text is the center of its container.

[dramabear]

THank you for the help-

I have deduced that the container's center is over the center of the text but that's actually what I want to be able to adjust. I want to know how to be able to tell the container where I want it to be.

[Albrecht Design]

Are you able to move the text of your label legend?

Does the container move with it?

Are you trying this on individual lights, or with a specific label legend through the label legend manager?

I'm sorry if this is more info than you need, but here goes.

To edit the label legend in 2008:

Tools

Label Legend Manager

Select the label legend you want to edit

Edit Layout

move the text fields where you want them

exit symbol

you will need to refresh your instruments using that legend:

Modify

Refresh instruments

Or, you will need to assign the legend again if refresh doesn't seem to work:

Modify

Assign legend to inst

The text and the container should move to the new position you set.

In earlier versions, the label legend manager is under a different menu:

Spotlight

Instrument Processing

Label Legend Manager

Assign legend and refresh instruments are also there.

I hope this is what you are asking.

Or are you asking if there is a way to change the relationship of the text and the container?

Edited May 21, 2008 by Albrecht Design

[dramabear]

Thank you and I apologize that you put all of those steps in for me but I have the set up of the label legends down it's your last statement:

"...is there a way to change the relationship of the text and the container?" that I am wondering about.

The only solution I've found to changing the relationship of the container and the text is by offsetting the container from 0,0 but that makes the container less useful for a wide range of label legends.