Editable text marks contain placeholders for text. You can place them anywhere on a substrate. The mark color is derived from the color set in the PDF file. The only difference between an editable text mark and a label mark with variable text is that with an editable text mark, you can modify the text in the layout view using the Mark Properties dialog box, or from the Content tab of job properties.
You can modify the text, font name, style, size, color, and overprint state of label marks on the Content tab of job properties, or by double-clicking or right-clicking (Ctrl+Click) the mark and selecting the Mark Properties dialog box. You can have separations of a mark print in reverse, for example, when using the Pandora mark Micro Dot.pdf. You cannot modify the crop box of the mark in Pandora.
The Pandora software includes the editable text mark LBL_Text, but you can also create your own. The placeholder text for the editable text mark must always be <Text>, and will not be visible when you add it to the layout.