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Overlay Page Labels

This section describes how to render and position page labels.

The Page Label Settings Editor

The menu option Tools Rendering Page Labels… provides access to the Page Label Settings Editor. You can use this editor to overlay the page labels (as shown in the page list) onto their respective pages in the document. You can define the font and font size and the placement of the labels.

  • Draw Page Labels: controls whether and at what end of the page (top or bottom) the labels will be drawn.
  • Placement: allows setting the horizontal justification of the labels on each page and the distance they are drawn away from the page's edge. Note that the horizontal margin has no effect if the labels are centre justified.
  • Opacity: the opacity controls how much of the page's contents is allowed to shine through the box. The greater the opacity the less of the page shines through.
  • Font: sets the font used to draw the labels.
  • Horizontal Margin: The distance from the left or right (depending on justification) edge of the paper to place the label. This setting is ignored if the justification is Center.
  • Vertical Margin: The distance from the top or bottom (depending on placement) edge of the paper to place the label.

Dragging Page Labels

After turning on the rendering of page labels, as an alternative to entering the horizontal and vertical margins numerically, you can drag page labels into place when in Annotate mode.

With the page labels showing, activate Annotate mode. The page labels will be framed by a blue box. Drag the box to where you want the labels to be. If for the page where you drag, the label justification is set to center you will only be able to drag vertically.