Problems with Padding and the Properties

[Monte Goulding]

On 25/07/2013, at 8:24 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote:

> I'm running into some problems with the padding property.
> 
> I'm not familiar with it and haven't used it but it's being returned with the Properties of fields of all types and is causing me some trouble.
> 
> Here are the problems:
> 
> When I get the properties of a field, the padding is included but appears to be the rect of the field.
> If I try to get the padding of the field directly i.e. get the padding of fld 1 - I get the message "the object does not have this property"
> 
> It looks to me like something is a bug but I don't know where the error is because I really don't know what the rules are for the padding property.

Hi Tim

This is already fixed and merged into the forthcoming 6.0.1 release. Padding was incorrectly documented as a field property when it's actually only a line property.

Cheers

Monte

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