Font Setup

Adjustment of fonts is a part of settings made for graphical palettes.

The following parameters can be adjusted:

Character set

Several character sets are available. Proper choice of a character set is important especially when you want to use characters that are specific for a certain language (e.g. diacritics).

Font type

Standard line fond and two variants of true type fonts are available.

TT fonts smooth

If a true type font is selected, its smoothness can be adjusted here.

 

For each of the texts the following parameters can be adjusted:

size

Specifies the size of labels.

size definition

Specifies how the size is measured. It may be measured in units of graphical device or in absolute units (i.e. the units in which the structure is defined).

colour

This item specifies the colour of the text.

placement

The labels may be put into:

the plane of the screen

plane XZ

plane XY

line font

This option is meaningful ONLY if a true type font is selected in the Font type item.

This item selects the font for the labels.

bold

Labels are in bold letters.

italic

Labels are in italic letters.

underline

Labels are in underlined letters.

strikeout

Labels are in stroked out letters.
The procedure for adjustment of fonts

  1. Open dialogue Fonts Setup using menu function Setup > Fonts,

  2. Make the required settings.

  3. Confirm with [OK].

Note: The settings are made separately for individual palettes. For more information about the use of palettes see chapter Display Setup palettes.