Applying Property Sets
To Apply a Property Set to Elements, Contexts or Conditions
Use the
Property sets category for the
Elements list
to select the property set to be applied to an element, context or condition.
1. Select the elements, contexts, or conditions to which you want to apply the property sets. Note that if you select an element, the property set will be applied to the element and all of its contexts (but not its conditions).
| If you select multiple contexts or conditions that reference different property sets, you cannot make any changes to properties in the Property sets category. |
2. Use the Outputs to edit field to specify the output(s) in which the property set will be applied to the object.
3. Click on the Property sets category.
4. Select one or more property sets, and then click Add. The property sets are moved to the Used Property Sets list.
5. If you want to change the location of the new property set in the Used Property Sets list, click the up or down arrows.
| The order of property sets is important if you include property sets that each contain values for the same property. The values of the last property set take precedence over the others. |
6. To ensure that the element looks the way you intended, choose a preview option from the Preview menu.
| When a single property set is selected in either the Available property sets list, or the Used property sets list from the Property sets category, the Description area for the Property sets category reflects the selected property set's values. |
To Apply a Property Set to Another Property Set
Use the
Property sets category for the
Property Sets list
to select the property set to be applied to another property set.
1. Select the property set to which you want to apply another property set.
2. Use the Outputs to edit field to specify the output(s) in which a property set will be applied to the selected property set.
3. Click on the Property sets category.
4. Select one or more property sets, and then click Add. The property sets are moved to the Used Property Sets list.
5. If you want to change the location of the new property set in the Used Property Sets list, click the up or down arrows.
| The order of property sets is important if you include property sets that each contain values for the same property. The values of the last property set take precedence over the others. |
6. To ensure that the element looks the way you intended, choose a preview option from the Preview menu.
Example: Creating Output-Specific Properties with Property Sets
This example shows how to use property sets to configure titles in your stylesheet to be displayed in blue text in all outputs except print. Titles will be output in black text in print output.
Once you have set up the property sets, you only need to make a single reference for each title context to provide the required outputs.
1. Create a property set Title color.
2. Configure the property set for multiple outputs as follows:
◦ Base (All Outputs) — use the Text category to set the text color to blue.
◦ Print/PDF output — use the Text category to set the text color to black.
3. For each title context, reference the Title color property set from the Property sets category.
To subsequently change the text color for titles in HTML outputs to red, make the relevant change to the Title color property set and it will automatically propagate to all the title contexts. You will not need to reference a new property set for all HTML outputs.
1. Access the Title color property set.
2. Make the following changes to the property set:
◦ Use the <Edit This List...> feature of the Outputs to edit control to create a group of all HTML outputs.
◦ Select this new group in the Outputs to edit control for the property set.
◦ Use the Text category to set the text color to red.
