Macro Command Reference
ftext <tag> <COOR> <x> <y> <font> <font size> <text> [c] [c] [c] [angle] [align] [tbalign] [cb] [cb] [cb]
Adds a floating text label to the document.
<tag>
: The tag
argument should be an integer value which can be used later to address a graphic or text object. Interactively created text or graphic objects always have the tag 0.
<COOR>
: The coordinate system to which the rectangle belongs.
<x>
, <y>
: the position of the text in the defined coordinate system.
<font>
: The font for the text (e.g. Helvetica-Bold)
<font size>
: The font size of the text.
[c] [c] [c]
: The color of the text. Dependent on the color mode the three values are RGB or HSB values from 0.0 to 1.0. The color mode can be set with the command colormode
(0=RGB, 1=HSB).
[angle]
: The text angle.
[align]
: The text alignment (0=left, 1=center, 2=right).
[tbalign]
: The text box alignment.

[pos]
: The position for automatically positioned text label (0=off, 1-21 fixed text positions).

[offset]
: Offset for automatically positioned text label.
[cb] [cb] [cb]
: The color of the text background. Dependent on the color mode the three values are RGB or HSB values from 0.0 to 1.0. The color mode can be set with the command colormode
(0=RGB, 1=HSB).