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Chapter 4: Designing Screens: 48 topics
  1. 4.1Drawing Basic Shapes
  2. 4.1.1Drawing Dots
  3. 4.1.2Drawing Lines
  4. 4.1.3Drawing Polylines
  5. 4.1.4Drawing Rectangles
  6. 4.1.5Drawing Circles
  7. 4.1.6Drawing Ellipses
  8. 4.1.7Drawing Arcs
  9. 4.1.8Drawing Pie Shapes
  10. 4.1.9Drawing Polygons
  11. 4.1.10Drawing Text Objects
  12. 4.1.10.1Text Object - General Settings
  13. 4.1.11Drawing Picture Objects
  14. 4.1.12Drawing Scales
  15. 4.1.13Drawing Tables
  16. 4.1.13.1Table - General Settings
  17. 4.1.13.2Table - Cell Settings
  18. 4.2Editing Objects
  19. 4.2.1Selecting and De-selecting Objects
  20. 4.2.2Basic Operations with the Selected Area
  21. 4.2.3Duplicating Objects
  22. 4.2.4Aligning Objects
  23. 4.2.5Making Objects Same Size
  24. 4.2.6Arranging the Order of Objects
  25. 4.2.6.1Changing the Order of Objects
  26. 4.3Designing Object Appearance
  27. 4.3.1Selecting a Color
  28. 4.3.2Selecting a Pattern
  29. 4.3.3Selecting a Graphical Shape
  30. 4.3.4Setting up the Shape of an Object
  31. 4.3.5Label Settings
  32. 4.3.5.1Text Sub-page Settings
  33. 4.3.5.2Picture Sub-page Settings
  34. 4.3.6Text Settings
  35. 4.3.7Picture Settings
  36. 4.3.8External Label Settings
  37. Setting up Objects
  38. 4.4.1States of Objects
  39. 4.4.1.1State Types
  40. 4.4.1.2Setting the Custom States of an Object
  41. 4.4.2Operation Options of Objects
  42. 4.4.3Address Settings
  43. 4.4.3.1Terminologies for Data Accessing
  44. 4.4.3.2Address Input Keypad
  45. 4.4.3.3Selecting Tags
  46. 4.4.4Setting up Objects - Scale Settings
  47. 4.4.5Setting up Objects - Advanced Settings
  48. 4.4.6Visibility Settings
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Section 4.1.10.1 · Chapter 4: Designing Screens

Text Object - General Settings

This section describes how to define the general settings for text objects.

The above is an example of the General page of the Text Object dialog box.

The following table describes each property in the General page.

Property

 Description
Language The language that you are setting the text for.
Shape Check this option if you want the text object to have a frame as its background. The Shape page appears in the dialog box when the option is selected.
Use the text of the first language for all other languages Check this item so the text object always shows the text of the first language regardless of what the current language is.
Font The font of the current text. You can use the drop-down list to select a font, or click to bring up the Font Templates dialog box and select a font for the current text. You can change the font templates before selecting a font in that dialog box.
Text <Edit Box> / <Combo Box> The current text of the currently selected language.
/ Click to view and edit the text for the selected language in this edit box, or click to select a text from dropdown text table that lists all the texts from Text Database. You can change the text database before selecting a text.
Color The color of the text. To specify the color, click the corresponding Color icon and select a color from the Color palette.
Transparent Check this item to make the background of the text transparent.
BG Color Specifies the background color of the text. This field is available when Transparent is not selected.
Alignment
 The alignment of the text.
Direction Select one of the following directions to arrange the characters of the text.
Direction From left to right From right to left From top to bottom From bottom to top
Input text:
An example		 An example elpmaxe nA A
n

e
x
a
m
p
l
e		 e
l
p
m
a
x
e

n
A
Position
 The position of the text body.
Spacing Border The margin (in pixels) to the border of the object’s shape for the text body.
Line The distance (in pixels) between two adjacent lines of the text.
Char. The distance (in pixels) between two adjacent characters of the text.　

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Source.Section 4.1.10.1 of the PM Designer Software User Manual, Edition 2.0, © Cermate Technologies Inc. (www.cermate.com, service@cermate.com). Reproduced online, with the manual's own figures, by TSL Automation Solutions, authorised Cermate distributor, for users of Cermate HMI panels. PM Designer and PanelMaster are trademarks of Cermate Technologies Inc.

Text and figures are the manufacturer's and may describe features your panel or software version does not have. For a plain-language introduction read the PM Designer guide; for help with a specific panel contact TSL Automation.