FORMS LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS

Shading

It is sometimes desirable to use shading in a form, but it requires using a large amount of the form image buffer. Also, the space used increases if portrait rather than landscape shading is used.

Landscape shading The basic element used in shading is a 32-by-32-dot character for dots or xdots. Because of hardware design, this character can be repeated in a landscape direction up to 32 times for dots and 64 times for xdots. This means that in a landscape direction, the system can shade any area from 0.1 to 3.4 inches wide with no difference in space used by the shading.

This facility is not available when shading is done in a portrait direction. Portrait shading is performed on a character-by-character basis, resulting in an increase in the space used.

Portrait shading To reduce shading and improve the visual effect of the form, end shading before the boundary line. Separate the shading from the surrounding lines by 0.1 to 0.2 line and character units. Thus, the shading is 0.2 to 0.4 units smaller than the surrounding box and is centered in that box. (The units referred to are lpi and cpi units.) The result is that shading is set back from the borders by 3 to 5 dots.

Avoiding boundary line density Terminating the shading before reaching the boundary line helps to problems avoid line density problems, conserves space in the form file and in

the form image buffer, and enhances the appearance of the form.

Figure 5-6.Normal shading-using the same coordinates

The early termination of the shading is shown in figure 5-7.

Figure 5-7.Early termination-using smaller box for the shading

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96MX specifications

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