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The |Text Binding:| dialog allows attaching a single text object to a polygon (a line, oval, or rounded rectangle,is converted to a polygon). The text may have any mixture of color, size, font, or style.

|Appearance:| specify additional factors affecting display of bound text.

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|Alignment:| specifies one of four methods for positioning the text on a line.

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|Rotate 90%|  rotates characters to allow "vertical" positioning of text, as needed for creating vertical labels on book bindings.

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|Clear Pairwise Kerning| removes individual precision separation (kerning) between characters. New bound text has no kerning. But you can double-click on bound text with the arrow pointer to adjust kerning.

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|Stretching| allows a percentage change in the height of each character without affecting the width: 100% is normal.

|Tracking:| applies a percentage change between characters, an easy way to spread characters apart from -50% to 200% of the character's size (approximately one 'em'). By spreading, you may avoid the need for kerning. (Disabled for |justified| binding).

|Show Polygon:| if set, the polygon is displayed even after binding to the text object.

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|Justified:| The text data is distributed across the entire figure, with proper consideration of each character's size and width.

|Centered:| the text data is aligned to the center of the polygon. This is particularly useful when binding to ovals and rectangles.

|To End:| The text data is aligned at the end of the polygon. For example, draw a broken polygon line from an object. Use bound text to add the text label.

|From Start:| The text data is aligned from the start of the polygon. 

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