Understanding Text Justification

Justification refers to how text is presented horizontally within the space allotted for the text. You can affect the justification of text in columns and in most variables. You cannot set text justification for constants or column headings. In RDA, you can select from these justification options:

• Right

• Center

• Left

Justification is relative to the frame of the object. For example, if you center text, the text is centered within the frame of the object. Remember that some data might have spaces either before or after. These spaces affect how the data is justified. For example, the business unit field is a string data type with a character size of 12. If all of the business units in your company use only five characters, the data is held in the database with spaces in front of each business unit value. These spaces are taken into consideration at that the time the system justifies the business unit column.

The batch engine supports left and center alignment for all fonts and languages. Right alignment is fully supported for Japanese 7-, 8- and 9-point size MS Gothic fonts only. For Chinese and Korean fonts, right alignment is not supported.

Bar codes must be left-aligned in RDA.