Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 400, User Manual

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Appendix
C
Available Fonts for Terminal Applications
The following fonts are pre-installed on PanelViewPlus/VersaView CE
terminals:
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True Type fonts (scalable)
– Tahoma.ttf (proportional)
– Courier.ttf (fixed width)
– Arial.ttf (proportional)
•
(23) fonts of various sizes migrated from PanelView Standard
and PanelView "e" terminals (various sizes)
To simplify the creation and downloading of .mer application files on
these devices, use the above list of fonts when developing screens in
RSView Studio.
Additional fonts are available in RSView Studio when developing
application screens.
•
If the font used to develop screens is not available on the target
device, the closest font is selected.
•
If bolding or italics is used, and a separate bold or italics font is
unavailable, then the target operating system will use an
algorithm to produce these affects.
In either case, the device screens will look different than they do in
RSView Studio.
Downloading Fonts to
Terminal
To use additional fonts on a PanelView Plus/VersaView CE device,
copy any of the font files on the VersaView CE Accessories CD or the
RSView Machine Edition Fonts CD to the following directory on the
computer where RSView Studio is installed:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME\Runtime
You can now use the File Transfer Utility in RSView Studio to
download the font file(s) to the target device:
1. Select Tools>Transfer Utility .
2. Select Source File>True Type Fonts .
3. Select a font file to download to the device and press the
Download button.
VersaView CE
Accessories CD The following True Type fonts are included on the VersaView CE
Accessories CD:
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Times New Roman.ttf
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Symbol.ttf
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Wingdings.ttf
This CD is not supplied with PanelView Plus terminals.