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Forms Creation Commands
This section describes the commands used in the creation of forms. The
unit of measure in forms creation commands is always 1/300", regardless
of the setting determined by the Units commands szf and szg.
Some of the commands in this section are dependent upon the orientation
of the page and its point of origin. The following illustrations show the
differences between portrait and landscape orientations. Note that the x
coordinate is always the shorter page dimension, and the y coordinate is
always the longer page dimension. In portrait orientation, the origin is at
the lower left corner of the page. In landscape orientation, the origin is at
the top left corner of the page.
Note: Unlike XES printers, page orientation must first be set correctly for
the XLi to use these commands.
Baseline Placement Absolute
▲
COMMAND:COMMAND:
COMMAND:COMMAND:
COMMAND: s
za#za#
za#za#
za#
11
11
1
,#,#
,#,#
,#
22
22
2
d
texttext
texttext
text
d
▲
RANGE:RANGE:
RANGE:RANGE:
RANGE:
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This command places the baseline of any character of text in any specified
location on the page relative to the page origin, where #
1
is the x (short
edge) coordinate and #
2
is the y (long edge) coordinate. If using a portrait
font, this command is identical to Text Placement Absolute. If using a
landscape font, this command uses the bottom left corner of the character
cell as the origin.
Text Placement Absolute
▲
COMMAND:COMMAND:
COMMAND:COMMAND:
COMMAND: s
a#a#
a#a#
a#
11
11
1
,#,#
,#,#
,#
22
22
2
d
texttext
texttext
text
d
▲
RANGE:RANGE:
RANGE:RANGE:
RANGE:
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This command will place text anywhere on the page relative to the page
origin, where #
1
is the x (short edge) coordinate and #
2
is the y (long edge)
