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Hello Isabella, The Widows feature in FusionPro is for controlling the number of lines of text that are to be kept together in a given frame. This feature applies to when you are using text overflow. Here's an example. Suppose you have 2 frames that are connected (so text can overflow from frame 1 to frame 2). In the first frame, you specify a multi-line flow of text. You set Widows to 3. Now you preview this job and you see that frame 1 has 4 lines of text from your text flow (until there is no more room in frame 1) and then the rest of your text overflows to frame 2. Next, you go back into your frame 1 with Edit Text and set the Widows to 5. When you preview the job now, you see that NO text appears in frame 1 and it all has been overflown to frame 2. FusionPro basically said "I was asked to keep 5 lines of text together at a minimum for this flow and there was not enough room to do that in frame 1. Therefore, I overflowed all the text to frame 2". This all being said on how widows function in FusionPro, I'm not sure this is the capability you are looking for. When you say that are "...having a problem with widows on the last line of text.", are you referring to: 1) That last line of text overflowing to another frame when you don't want it to? 2) Your last line of text in the paragraph has too few words in it for your liking (maybe you want to make sure there are no fewer than 3 words on the last line)? Or perhaps it's something else? Thanks, Isabella

Hi Chris, FusionPro includes support for 2 types of 2D barcodes - Datamatrix and PDF417. At this time, we don't include support for the QR Code format. Creating these barcodes requires 2 components for FusionPro to output them. The first is the barcode font iteself and the second is the encoder which translates the data you want to appear into the barcode into a string of text that you then typeset with the barcode font. Every barcode (pretty much) uses a different encoder so I would not expect the DataMatrix or PDF417 encoders to produce the correct output for QR Code. There are a couple options for you if you would like to see support for the QR Code in FusionPro. The first is to purchase the font for QR Code and then write the encoder yourself (or use an off-the-shelf encoder for this barcode which you would run on your data before you bring it into FusionPro). The second option is to speak with our team about explicity adding support for this barcode in FusionPro itself. We offer services for projects such as this and have added a number of barcodes for customers over the years.

Brian, Applying stroke to variable text is not currently a feature in FusionPro. However, I have heard a couple folks asking for this. Anyone else out there with an interest in an ability to apply stroke to variable text?

Good to hear this works for you, Gabrielle. As you point out, you can indeed use this method to have rules enable a number of other character/paragraph formatting options as well such as font name, bold, italic, font size, alignment, etc.

Hello Gabrielle, I tried a couple of things and think there might be an easier way to accomplish what you are after with 1 rule. Make a rule called something like colorChangeRule that looks like this: return '<color name="' + Field("Color") + '">';Make sure you select the "treat returned strings as tagged text" option in your rule. This rule assumes you have a field called "Color" that references a valid color in your template. Then, in the variable text editor where you want the color to be used for your data, just insert this rule "colorChangeRule" before any placement of your fields. for example: «colorRule»«First Name» «Last Name» «colorRule»«Address 1» This rule should change the color of the text after it. Notice, though, that if you have a new line, you need to place that rule again. Is this what you are looking for?