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HSAjet-CU user manual
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Working with font types / anchors
The variable CU objects, except the logos and barcodes, display textual information. Because of
it's resources, the CU is not able to place and scale fonts freely. That is why the
font anchors
were
made.
For every CU message you can choose up to 16 different fonts, each linked to an anchor with a
different color. Within each of the 16 fonts, you can choose between font type (Arial, Courier, and
every other installed true type font), a font size, bold - you can even stretch the font freely.
Within each anchor, you can change the font offset from top to bottom.
An
anchor
is defined as 1/4 of the XJ128 head, equal to
32 pixels
. You can place the anchor freely
in the print direction (left/right), and in 32 pixels increments in the vertical direction.
Some illustrations will show the point of anchors:
Here is a purple and yellow anchor, with the
same font but different offsets from the
anchor.
You can see that the same anchor always
displays the same font. If you change an
anchor font definition, it will affect all variables
with that anchor color.
To smaller make text lines closer together,
use two anchors. The anchor itself is only
visible in design mode. They are not printed.
It is not a problem to define a font that is
larger than the anchor itself.