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- ** File: TPPlot4.hlp
- ** Index: 34
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- ** Plot View's Font Menu commands
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- █ Font menu
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- TechPlot provides 9 scalable vector
- fonts:
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- bold
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- complex
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- gothic
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- italic
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- roman
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- script
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- sanserif
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- simplex
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- symbol
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- █ PostScript printer fonts:
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- When save or print graphs, if you have
- selected "Use printer font" option in the
- Select Printing Mode dialog box, TechPlot
- will use printer fonts. The following
- table shows the assignment of TechPlot's
- fonts to PostScript fonts.
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- TechPlot Font PostScript Font
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- Bold Helvetica+Italic
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- Complex Roman
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- Gothic Bookman
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- Italic Roman+Italic
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- Roman Palatino
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- Script ITC Zapf Chancery-
- Medium Italic
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- Sanserif Helvetica
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- Simplex Courier
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- Symbol Symbol
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- When any of the TechPlot's font is set
- with Thick Line option, it will become the
- corresponding PostScript font with bold
- option. For example,
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- Complex + Thick Line = Roman + Bold.
-
-
- █ LaserJet printer fonts:
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- For LaserJet II series, there is only
- one font assignment to printer font. The
- TechPlot's Simplex font is assigned to
- LaserJet II's Courier font.
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- For LaserJet III series, there are five
- fonts assigned with TechPlot's vector fonts.
- Tip: For better quality graphics output on
- LaserJet printers,
-
- 1) try to use printer fonts as possible;
-
- 2) turn on the Thick Line option for
- TechPlot's vector fonts.
-
- The following table shows the
- assignment of TechPlot's fonts to
- LaserJet III fonts.
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- TechPlot Font LaserJet III Font
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- Sanserif Helvetica
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- Bold Helvetica + Italic
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- Roman Time Roman
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- Italic Time Roman + Italic
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- Simplex Courier
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- For Complex, Gothic, Script, and Symbol
- fonts, the original TechPlot's vector fonts
- are used.
-
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- █ Add text object
-
- To add a text object, perform the
- following steps:
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- ■ Move the mouse (or emulated mouse) to
- the text tool in the tool box and click
- the mouse button.
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- ■ Move the mouse to the client area and
- position it at the starting position of
- the place where you want the object to
- be drawn.
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- ■ Press the mouse button and drag to an
- ending position then release. The Text
- Format dialog box will be displayed.
- In this dialog box, you can type in the
- text string, choose a font, set the
- color, and change text dimension.
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- When you finish these steps, a new
- object will appear on your screen in the
- current active color (as shown in the color
- palette). This object can be independently
- moved, resized, deleted, etc.
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- █ Creating an equation text string
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- TechPlot provides a simple equation
- editor that can be used in combination
- with text annotations of simple math
- equations. Use the '\' (slash) character
- as the control character. The following
- list is the available control characters
- for equation editor.
-
- 'u' 'U' move text up one unit
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- 'd' 'D' move text down one unit
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- 'f' 'F' move text forward one unit
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- 'b' 'B' move text backward one unit
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- 'l' 'L' enlarge font size by one unit
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- 's' 'S' shrink font size by one unit
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- 'o' 'O' change font to Bold
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- 'g' 'G' change font to Gothic
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- 'r' 'R' change font to Roman
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- 'i' 'I' change font to Italic
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- 'c' 'C' change font to Script
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- 'n' 'N' change font to Sanserif
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- 'x' 'X' change font to Simplex
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- 'y' 'Y' change font to Symbol
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- 'm' 'M' change font to Complex
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- For example, in order to create the
- equation y=k*e^-c*(x-m)^2, you type
- y=k*e\u\s-c*(x-m)\u\s2.
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