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d.text.freetype

NAME

d.text - Draws text in the active display frame on the graphics monitor using the current font.

KEYWORDS

display

SYNOPSIS

d.text
d.text help
d.text [-mpgbrsc] [text=string] [size=float] [color=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

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

{0|1} bold (default: 0)

linespacing linespacing (default: 1.1)

To end input, press Ctrl-d on a blank line.

EXAMPLES

Standard mode:

d.text.freetype text="GRASS GIS" -g at=2107055,5603133 rs
size=7 path=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf

Command mode:

The following example prints three lines: "GRASS d.text.freetype output", dqSee test.input file", and dqfor more details.".

d.text.freetype -c

GRASS


 d.text.freetype


 output

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: 2007-04-07 13:34:10 +0200 (Sat, 07 Apr 2007) $

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