Macro Command Reference


text <tag> <x> <y> <font> <font size> <text> [c] [c] [c] [angle] [TEXTALIGN] [AUTOTEXTPOS] [offset] [cb] [cb] [cb]

Adds a text label to the document.
<tag>: The tag argument should be an integer value which can be used later to address a graphic or text object. Interactively created text or graphic objects always have the tag 0.
<x>, <y>: the position in screen coordinates of the text.
<font>: The font for the text (e.g. Helvetica-Bold)
<font size>: The font size of the text.
[c] [c] [c]: The color of the text. Dependent on the color mode the three values are RGB or HSB values from 0.0 to 1.0. The color mode can be set with the command colormode (0=RGB, 1=HSB).
[angle]: The text angle.
[TEXTALIGN]: The text alignment.
[AUTOTEXTPOS]: The position for automatically positioned text label.
[offset]: Offset for automatically positioned text label.
[cb] [cb] [cb]: The color of the text background. Dependent on the color mode the three values are RGB or HSB values from 0.0 to 1.0. The color mode can be set with the command colormode (0=RGB, 1=HSB).

AUTOTEXTPOS

A parameter wich defines the alignment of different objects, possible values:

 outsidetopleft
otl
10		outsidetopcenter
otc
11		outsidetopright
otr
12		 
outsidelefttop
olt
21		topleft
tl
1		topcenter
tc
2		topright
tr
3		outsiderighttop
ort
13
outsideleftcenter
olc
20		centerleft
cl
4		center
c
5		centerright
cr
6		outsiderightcenter
orc
14
outsideleftbottom
olb
19		bottomleft
bl
7		bottomcenter
bc
8		bottomright
br
9		outsiderightbottom
orb
15
 outsidebottomleft
obl
18		outsidebottomcenter
obc
17		outsidebottomright
obr
16		 

TEXTALIGN

A parameter wich defines the alignment of text elements:

left
l
0		center
c
1		right
r
2