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NAME
d.text - Draws text in the active display frame on the graphics monitor using the current font.
KEYWORDS
display, cartography
SYNOPSIS
d.text
d.text help
d.text [-mpgbrsc] [text=string] [size=float] [color=string] [bgcolor=string] [line=integer] [at=x,y] [align=string] [rotation=float] [linespacing=float] [font=string] [path=string] [charset=string] [--verbose] [--quiet]
Flags:
- -m
- Use mouse to interactively place text
- -p
- Screen position in pixels ([0,0] is top left)
- -g
- Screen position in geographic coordinates
- -b
- Use bold text
- -r
- Use radians instead of degrees for rotation
- -s
- Font size is height in pixels
- -c
- Ignored (compatibility with d.text.freetype)
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
Parameters:
- text=string
- Text to display
- size=float
- Height of letters in percentage of available frame height
- Options: 0-100
- Default: 5
- color=string
- Text color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet
- Default: gray
- bgcolor=string
- Text background color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet
- line=integer
- The screen line number on which text will begin to be drawn
- Options: 1-1000
- at=x,y
- Screen position at which text will begin to be drawn (percentage, [0,0] is lower left)
- align=string
- Text alignment
- Options: ll,lc,lr,cl,cc,cr,ul,uc,ur
- Default: ll
- rotation=float
- Rotation angle in degrees (counter-clockwise)
- Default: 0
- linespacing=float
- Line spacing
- Default: 1.25
- font=string
- Font name
- path=string
- Path to font file
- charset=string
- Text encoding (only applicable to TrueType fonts)
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:
- at=x,y
- Locates the text at this screen position (percentage, [0,0] is bottom
left). 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" -g at=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.
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: 2011-11-08 03:29:50 -0800 (Tue, 08 Nov 2011) $
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