Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual page 102

88 Chapter 8:
All About Text
You can adjust the position of each line of text at initial entry or when Smart Editing. In the
Enter/Edit Text dialog box, position the cursor in a specific line of text and enter an X,Y
position. (Entering a position automatically turns on the check box.) Clear the check box to turn
off the X,Y positioning of a specific line and that line of text will follow the position of the
previous line.
To enter text at a specific X,Y location
1 Click the Enter/Edit Text tool to open the Enter/Edit Text dialog box.
2 Enter a value in the X and Y box.
3 Enter text in the Text box.
4 Click F11/Continue to return to the work surface.
Choosing the font
Fonts are chosen differently in each of the three text entry methods. Before you choose a font in
TOWS or the Enter/Edit Text dialog box, it may be beneficial to limit the available font choices.
For example, if you know you want to use only EDGE fonts in a job, you can display only the
list of EDGE fonts and exclude other fonts from appearing in the list.
Limiting and displaying available font choices
Two dialog boxes Filter by Category and Current Font Category allow you to limit and display
the available font choices.
Filter by Category dialog box ⎯ The Select Font Category button opens the Filter by
Category dialog box, which allows you to select font categories. Once the font
categories have been selected, the Selection font box displays only the fonts that match
the selected font categories. Use the Windows convention for selection: a single click
selects the target and deselects all others, Ctrl+click adds to anything that is already
highlighted and Shift+click selects the range between last selected and current cursor
position.
To limit the available font choices in TOWS
1 Open the second line of the TOWS toolbar.
2 Click the Select Font Categories to open the Filter by Category dialog box.
3 Click a font category you want to make available in the font list. Use the Windows
convention of Shift + click or Ctrl + click to choose multiple font categories.