Printing a Box
Label Output | PALTM Command Sequences |
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Hello World!
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/Sans12.00pt findfont
12scalefont setfont
7272 moveto (Hello World!) show
7268 moveto
14468 lineto
3030 moveto
25830 lineto
258258 lineto
30258 lineto closepath
2setlinewidth stroke
1_showpages
Purpose: Demonstrate the drawing of a rectangular box. This example builds on the previous example by drawing a frame around the label. A 4” x 4” (288 points x 288 points) label is used in this example. The frame will be placed within 30 points of the edge of the label.
moveto - Position the drawing cursor at the desired location
This example assumes a 4” x 4” label (288 points x 288 points). A frame is drawn by moving to the starting point with the moveto operator.
lineto - Set the dimensions for the line
Forms three sides of the box with three separate lineto operators.
closepath - Close the shape
A box is drawn by drawing 3 sides of the box with the lineto operator followed by closepath, which closes the box by drawing the last line. It is important to use this operator to close a shape since the imaging algorithms may or may not actually close the shape due to rounding errors in the algorithm.
setlinewidth - Set the width of the lines
The width is set in points. In this example, the line width is set to 2 points. The line width value will remain the effective value for all lines until changed.
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