Item

Description

Type

Type of the piece of text

 

material (up to 20 characters).

 

 

Title

Title of the piece of text

 

material (up to 40 characters).

 

When no title is specified, the

 

first 40 characters of the text

 

will be the title.

 

You can identify pieces of

 

materials by the type and title.

 

 

Effect

Select the text display effect

 

from the following:

 

Constant: Displays stable text.

 

Blink: Displays blinking text.

 

Scroll: Makes text flow across

 

the display from right to left.

 

 

Scroll speed

Select the speed of text flow,

 

when you select “Scroll” for

 

“Effect.”

 

Note that the scroll speed

 

settings of BZNP-D1 version

 

1.0 and version 2.0 are

 

different.

 

 

Transparency

Select whether the background

(Not selectable in this

color should be transparent or

version)

not.

 

 

Base character color

The square shows the current

 

text color. To change it, click

 

[Change Character Color] and

 

select the desired color in the

 

Edit Colors dialog box.

 

To change the color of the text

 

that has already been typed in

 

the Edit Text dialog box, right-

 

click the text and select

 

[Change Character Color].

 

 

Background color

The square shows the current

 

background color. To change it,

 

click [Change Background

 

Color] and select the desired

 

color in the Edit Colors dialog

 

box.

 

The background color cannot

 

be changed partially.

 

 

The Text Properties dialog box closes.

5 Select the desired font and character size with the Font and Font Size dialog boxes in the Edit Text dialog box.

6 Type the desired text.

You can also copy text from another application program such as a word processor, and paste it in the Edit Text dialog box by pressing the Ctrl+V keys. To import a text file, click [Read Text File] and specify the file.

7 Click [OK].

The newly created piece of text material appears in the Content Management window.

To change the color of the text

Whereas the base color of the text is selected by clicking [Change Character Color] in the Text Properties dialog box, the following procedure changes the color of a part or of the entire piece of text that has already been typed.

1 Select the text for which you want to change the color by dragging the mouse in the Edit Text dialog box, then right-click the selection.

2 Select [Change Character Color] on the popup menu.

The Text Color Settings dialog box appears.

3 Select the desired color in the Text Color Settings dialog box, then click [OK].

Hint

You can replace a color displayed in the Text Color Settings dialog box with a new one by clicking [Change Color], then selecting the color in the Edit Colors dialog box.

To select a style for the text

1 The BZNP-D1 software enables you to assign bold, italic, and underlined styles to a part or to the entire piece of text.

2 Select the text to which you want to assign styles by dragging the mouse in the Edit Text dialog box, then right-click the selection.

3 Click [Font Style] on the popup menu, then click the command corresponding to the desired style on the cascading menu.

To remove the specified style from the text, click the command corresponding to the style to be removed (it has a check mark) in the same way, or click [Regular].

Note

The BZNP-D1 software allows only one font (font face and size) within a single piece of text material.

To modify text material

Right-click the line of the piece of text material to be modified in the Content Management window, then click [Edit] on the popup menu. This opens the Edit Text dialog box containing the content of the selected piece of text material. Modify the text and/or properties, then click [OK].

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Material Preparations

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