Kyocera FS 1028DP User Manual

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Figure 1. 2.  Text Including PRESCRIBE Commands 
!R! RES; SLM 1; STM 1; SPD 0.03; FTMD 13; SFNT Helvetica-Bd; EXIT;
WELCOME TO WINDFALL NATIONAL PARK 
!R! SFNT Times-Rom; EXIT; The park entrance is located in the rolling hills of 
the Northern Woods, a forested area abundant in deer, 
elk, squirrel, rabbit, opossum, lynx, wolf, and other 
wildlife. It is the park’s most popular area, featuring 
excellent trails and campsites for hiking and backpacking.
!R! BOX 3.4, 0.55; FSET 1s5B; EXIT; Hikers...

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Format of PRESCRIBE Commands 
The basic format of a PRESCRIBE command is: 
• • • or  • •  •  •  (command name) parameter, ..., parameter; 
The command names generally consist of three  or four letters. In most commands, the 
parameters must be followed by commas. Th e last parameter is always followed by a 
semicolon. Some commands (RES, for example) have no pa rameters. In this case, the 
command should be followed immediately by a semicolon ( RES;). 
The length...

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Figure 1. 4.  Edge Limits and Margins
When the printing system passes the bottom margin while printing text, it prints the page 
and feeds to the next page. Spacing is carried over, so if the bottom margin does not 
occur at an exact number of  lines, excess space is printed at the top of the next page. 
If you are using word-processing software that sets the margins automatically, you 
should not set them with PRESCRIBE commands.
Page Orientation and Direction 
The term  page...

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Page Orientation 
Changing the page orientation automatically adjusts the margins so that they remain the 
same distance from the four edges of the paper. If the printing system cannot make these 
margin settings (for example, if the left margin would be to the right of the right margin), 
it sets the margins to the edge limits. 
Fonts are automatically rotated to match the current orientation.  
Figure 1. 5.  Page Orientations
Print Direction 
The print direction...

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Figure 1. 6.  Print Direction
Coordinate Systems 
With PRESCRIBE, positions on a page are described in terms of X and  Y coordinates. 
The origin of the coordinate system (the position at which X  and Y both equal  0) is 
located at the intersection  of the top margin and the left margin. Values of  X greater than 
0  indicate positions to the right of the origin, and values of  Y indicate positions below the 
origin. See the figure on page  10. When the top and left margins are...

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cursor indicates where the next character will be printed or the next graphics will be 
drawn. (The printing system does not have separate cursors for text and graphics.) 
Text and graphics can be positioned at arbitrary locations on the page by moving the cur-
sor with positioning commands (MAP, for example). 
Figure 1. 7.  Text Positioning 
TITLE
!R! BOX 1, 1; MRP 2, 1;
EXIT; LABEL
Character Spacing 
Each character is printed within an individua l cell as shown...

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Figure 1. 8.  Character Spacing
Paths 
A path is a set of straight and curved line segments. Paths can be open, as in the case of 
lines, or closed, as in the case of rectangles , circles, or any fully enclosed area of any 
shape. The segments may be connected with  one another, or they may be disconnected. 
Further, a path may co ntain multiple closed subpaths, representing several areas, and 
they may intersect themselves in arbitrary ways. 
Paths can be used to draw lines and curves...

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Figure 1. 9.  Logical Page and Physical Page
With the standard mode  logical page, any position specification that lies outside of the 
logical limits is automatically adjusted to bring it within the limits. For example, the 
page on the upper left in the preceding figur e shows what happens if you attempt to draw 
a diagonal line from below the bottom edge limit to a point to the right of the right edge 
limit when the standard mode logical page is  used. The...

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For computer code values beyond four decimal places, the fifth and subsequent decimal 
places are ignored. 
Examples:
Some commands have angle parameters. Angles are specified in degrees. (The printing 
system does not recognize radians). The printing  system rounds off all angles to the near-
est integral degree. Only angles in the rang e from -360 degrees to 360 degrees are recog-
nized. Angles less than -360 degrees are igno red, and angles greater than 360 degrees are 
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TEXT You’re about to enter PRESCRIBE.; 
TEXT ’    ’; 
In the first command above, the character string starts with a double quotation mark. The 
printing system therefore expe cts the string to end with a double quotation mark, and 
regards the apostrophe in the word  Yo u ’ r e as an ordinary character, not as the string ter-
minator. 
Similarly, the double quotation marks in the second command above are recognized as 
ordinary characters, not as string...