Xerox 96 Printer User Manual


 
FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE
3-20 XEROX DOCUPRINT 96/DOCUPRINT 96MX LPS FORMS CREATION GUIDE
Types of lines
The following types of lines may be drawn:
Solid An unbroken, straight line
Broken Line is divided into many equal sections, separated by
small amounts of space
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Dotted Line consists of dots of equal size and spaced equally
apart.
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Lines may be of the following weights:
LINE command defaults The system defaults for direction and type of line are HORIZONTAL
and SOLID 1 and are adopted automatically if no other option is
specified. The default option of REPEAT is used to repeat a
horizontal line vertically and a vertical line horizontally to produce
parallel lines.
(The point of origin of a vertical line is at the top of the line at the
midpoint of the line thickness. A horizontal line point of origin is at the
left end of the line at the midpoint of the line thickness.)
Example 1 AT 3 DRAW LINE FROM 4 TO 10;
This command specifies the drawing of a horizontal line three grid
units down from the form origin, starting four grid units to the right of
the form origin and ending 10 grid units to the right of the form origin,
as shown in figure 3-8.
Hairline
1
2
0
(invisible)
AT 3 Keyword AT and the location down the page at
which the line is placed
DRAW Keyword DRAW
LINE Keyword LINE or LINES (When the number of
lines is omitted, one SOLID 1 line —the default
—is assumed).
FROM 4 TO 10 Keyword FROM and the coordinates indicating
the beginning and end of the lines