NAME
d.text.freetype - Draws text in the graphics monitor's active display frame using TrueType fonts.
SYNOPSIS
d.text.freetype
d.text.freetype help
d.text.freetype [-brpnsc] [text=string] [east_north=east,north] [path=string] [charset=string] [color=string] [size=float] [align=string] [rotation=float] [linespacing=float]
Flags:
- -b
- Use bold text
- -r
- Use radians instead of degrees for rotation
- -p
- Coordinates are in pixels ([0,0] is top left)
- -n
- Coordinates are percentage of frame ([0,0] is bottom left)
- -s
- Font size is height in pixels
- -c
- Command mode (Compatibility with d.text)
Parameters:
- text=string
- Text (enclose multiple words "in quotes")
- east_north=east,north
- Map coordinates
- path=string
- Path to TrueType font (including file name)
- charset=string
- Character encoding (default: UTF-8)
- color=string
- Text color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet (separated by colons)
- Default: gray
- size=float
- Height of letters (in percent of available frame height)
- Default: 5
- align=string
- Text alignment
- Options: ll,lc,lr,cl,cc,cr,ul,uc,ur
- Default: ll
- rotation=float
- Rotation angle in degrees (counterclockwise)
- Default: 0
- linespacing=float
- Line spacing
- Default: 1.1
DESCRIPTION
d.text.freetype
draws text in the graphics monitor's active display frame using TrueType
fonts already installed on the user's system.
Parameter Notes:
- east_north=easting,northing
- Locates the text at these map coordinates. If this option is omitted,
the user will be prompted to use the mouse to specify the location.
- font=name
- Specifies a font listed in the GRASS 'freetypecap' definition file.
- charset=name
- Sets character encoding for input text. (e.g. ISO-8859-1)
- color=name
- Sets text color to name or R:G:B triplet.
It can also be a hexadecimal value of 0xRRGGBB
(deprecated).
Options: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
violet, gray, white, and black
Default: gray
- size=value
- Sets text height in percent of available frame height.
Default: 10
- align=name
- Aligns text in this way.
Options: ll, lc, lr, cl, cc, cr, ul, uc, ur
l?: Lower, c?: Vertically Centered, u?: Upper,
?l: Left, ?c: Horizontally Centered, ?r: Right
Default: ll (Lower Left)
Command mode:
Key
- {REQUIRED}
-
- [OPTIONAL]
-
- THIS|orTHAT
-
- +, -
- Relative value
- r, %, p
- Radian, Percentage, and Pixels respectively
Commands
- .F {font|path}[:charset] font
-
- .C {color_name|R:G:B} color (default: gray)
-
- .S [+|-]size[p] size (default: 5)
-
- .B {0|1} bold (default: 0)
-
- .A {ll|lc|lr|cl|cc|cr|ul|uc|ur} align (default: ll)
-
- .R [+|-]rotation[r] rotation (default: 0)
-
- .I linespacing linespacing (default: 1.1)
-
- .X [+|-]x[%|p] x-coord
-
- .Y [+|-]y[%|p] y-coord
-
- .L {0|1} linefeed (default: 1)
-
- .E [+|-]east[%|p] x-origin
-
- .N [+|-]north[%|p] y-origin
-
- .. dot
-
To end input, press Ctrl-d on a blank line.
EXAMPLES
Standard mode:
d.text.freetype text="GRASS GIS" east_north=2107055,5603133 \
size=7 path=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf
Command mode:
The following example prints three lines: "GRASS
d.text.freetype output",
"See test.input file", and
"for more details.".
- d.text.freetype -c
- .F /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf:ISO-8859-1
- .S 20p
- .L 0
- GRASS
- .C red
- d.text.freetype
- .C gray
- output
- .L 1
- See test.input file
- for more details.
Command mode instructions may also be read directly from a text file:
d.text.freetype -c < test.input
DEFINITION FILE
To help users select fonts conveniently, the definition file,
$(GISBASE)/etc/freetypecap, is provided. Its format is as follows:
font:fontpath:charset:description
*default_font:fontpath:charset:description
See the file for examples.
SEE ALSO
d.text
d.font.freetype
d.font
d.title
d.where
AUTHOR
Huidae Cho
<grass4u@gmail.com>
Updates by Hamish Bowman, NZ
Last changed: $Date: 2004/10/28 21:00:28 $
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