Paxar 9401 manual Defining Constant Text Overlays

2. Designing a Format

Defining Constant Text Overlays

A constant text overlay is a set of fixed characters that prints on all supplies. This overlay is not a field, and does not count in the field numbering from 1 to 14. The characters in the overlay are fixed, and the user cannot change them. Field options do not apply to overlays.

The constant text overlay section is in the lower left corner of the Format Worksheet.

1.Define the format header if you have not already done so.

2.Select a font style from the samples provided earlier in this chapter.

3.Determine the height of the characters, using the table provided in this chapter. Draw two lines on your Layout Grid to show the bottom and the top of the overlay.

4.Determine the maximum width of the overlay, using the table provided in this chapter. Draw two lines on the Layout Grid to show the right and left sides of the overlay.

5.On the Supply Layout Grid, mark the lower left corner of the overlay as you read it from left to right, just as you would mark a text field. This is the pivot point.

Designing a Format

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