Symbols are taken from the currently selected character set and are sized, slanted and rotated in the same way as characters.

S c

SP pe}lnumber [;]

This command selects the printer’s logical pen for subsequent plotting. This command must be set in order to output.

Pen Ois white; it is used when no drawing is required or to draw white lines on a black fill, with transparency off.

Pen 1 is black; values greater than I are treated as 1.

S v c

SV hpe [, optl [, opt2]]

This command selects the type ofscreenin.g(area fill) to be applied to vectors (lines. hatching patterns (fill types 3 and 4), arcs, circles, and edges of polygons, rectangles, and wedges). This command does not affect solid fill types, labels, stroked characters, or edges of characters.

There are three types of screen fill: shaded fill, user-defined raster fill, and predefine cross-hatch patterns.

The meanings of and relation between parameters are as given in the following table:

Type

Meaning

opt 1

opt2

o

no screening

ignored

ignored

I

shaded

shading percentage,

ignored

 

 

between O(white) and

 

~

 

100 (black)

 

user defined raster

index; the pen for the

O:black pen,

 

(see RF)

black pixels is selected

1; current pen

 

 

as follows

 

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predefine

fill type

ignored

. Without parameters, this command turns off screening.

If oprl and/or opt2 is missing, the previous and appropriate default values are used.

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