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2020-10-01T08:03:31Z

Pekka:

== General ==

You can reach this mode... 
by '''["]''' or 
by'''"Text"''' in menu '''"Elements"''' or 
by the tool [[Image:Text.jpg]] subsumed under the "pencil" icon (the drawing functions). 
 
What you can do... 
Click [[Mousekeys|'''M1''']] to where the text later shall appear. Enter the text and its options to the following dialog. Close the dialog with '''OK''' to place the text. Caution: Win 95/98/ME have an old 16-bit graphic, which is not able to mirror Windows fonts. Only the font TARGET can be mirrored in Win 95/98/ME. The Windows fonts can only be mirrored by the 32-bit graphic of Win NT4/2000/XP/Vista. 
 
'''NOTE:''' Windows fonts can be mirrored only with the Windows NT4/2000/XP 32-bit graphics. Windows 95/98/ME with its 16-bit graphics can't do this. The TARGET 3001! Gerber driver is not able to output Windows fonts. They are replaced by the font TARGET. Always check the result of this replacement please! 
 
Leave this mode... 
by '''[ESC]''' or [[Mousekeys|'''M1''']]

== Elements of the Text dialog ==

[[Image:e_TextOptDlg.jpg|left]]
'''Position:''' defines the exact location (bottom left) of the text 
'''Content:''' allows the entering of your text elements 
'''Font:''' Choose any Windows font or extra ANSI characters. Browse the ANSI characters before bringing them to your text by the use of the "arrow up" button. Arial or Times font can be used without worries. It is not for sure that any font will be processed the right way. Check for hight and length of the characters to avoid trouble. If external export drivers (e.g. GERBER) are chosen, additionally the single line font "TARGET" and DIN-ISO-ANSI can be used. Please note that Gerber can only output the TARGET font and that only Windows NT is capable of mirroring Windows fonts. So in the schematic you normally can use any font you like, however be cautious to use Windows fonts in the PCB layout. Often the "Ohm" character is wanted. It has got an own button. 
A click on the '''multiline''' button opens a box to enter text in more than one line 
'''Font Height and Width:''' define the average measurements of the fonts. The Windows fonts can deviate from this defaults 
When zooming out text at a sudden point can only be displayed as black box. This question of resolution can be controlled in the "[[Settings / Options]]" dialog entering a lower value to the "Minimum width" field 
'''Thickness:''' applies only if using TARGET font. Windows fonts automatically switch from normal to bold between 10% and 20%. 
'''Rotation:''' Text or single font characters arbitrarily can be rotated or mirrored. When ro'''t'''ated later by [[Turn_/_rotate|[t]]] text always behaves the way that it is readable from below or from the right. The checkbox '''Stiff''' makes TARGET ignore this rule so that text if [[Turn_/_rotate|rotated by [t]]] later rotates fixed/stiff according to the angle 
'''Page:''' Which schematic page the text shall appear on 
'''Layer:''' Which layer the text shall appear on 
'''Function:''' When selecting something different to normal text, then the content is adjusted to the text function you assigned. See below. 
'''Color:''' A special color for the text 
'''Signal:''' The text can be a signal name and thus belong to the respective signal 
'''"Function"''' means the following text can either be "Normal text" in the sense of a free editable text element or variable. Text can vary, indicated by the following fuctions: 
*'''Component name''' for the component reference name (e.g. IC17, R15)
*'''Component value''' (e.g. NE555, 4k7)
*'''Symbol name''' for the symbol reference name(e.g. IC17c)
*'''Signal name''' for the name of a signal (e.g. GND, Sig$13)
*'''Pin name''' for the name of the pin (e.g. RES\, Pin8)
*'''Date of change''' for the last storage date (considers the [[Project variables|project variable]]] DATE_FORMAT if existing)
*'''Time of change''' for the last storage time
*'''Output date''' for the date of printing or Gerber output (considers the [[Project variables|project variable]]] DATE_FORMAT if existing
*'''Output time''' for the time of printing or Gerber output.
*'''Scale''' for the current output scale
*'''Project name''' for the name of the project without file extension
*'''Filename''' for the name of the project with file extension
*'''Page number''' for the current schematic page number
*'''Special property''' for user generated properties
*'''Variant''' for the variant name
*'''Component type''' for the search name of the component
*'''Page name''' for the name of the current schematic page 

== Multilingual text within one project ==

All documentations and text fragments can be edited in three languages, let's say in English, German and in French. After you have placed a lettering in English language (for example the advice: "Don't solder"). Click in schematic or layout double on this text. The "Change Texts" dialog dialog opens: 

[[Image:English.jpg|none]] 

In section 

[[Image:e_InhAndSprach.jpg|none]] 
tick the boxes for further languages which you'd like to use and write the text into the lines. For demonstrational reasons we have used the words "Ne pas souder" and "Nicht löten". If you enter OK, you first see only the English lettering. This is, because you are in the English language documentation of the project. Please note the English/American flag on screen. 

If you click on the flag, the following dialog appears: 

[[Image:e_SprachAuswDLG.jpg|none]] 

Click on a radiobutton to see the letterings in a different language. Viewing the flag, you see which language version you currently work with. Text can be edited in three languages simultaneously. Which kind of language you use don't matter. 
'''Important note:''' Multilingual text within one project has nothing to do with "variants". It is a separate, independent text function. 

== Adjust the size of all text elements ==

Highlight the complete layout by the use of a [[Capture Window]]. Press keyboard key "[e]" for '''e'''dit. The dialog : "Edit the selected Elements" opens.

[[Image:aenderntext_dlg_e.png]]

Tick the box "Texts" and press OK. The dialog "Change Texts" opens.

[[Image:aenderntext_dlg2_e.png]]

Now do all desired adjustments. If you only want to change (= highlight) certain elements, please use the [[Select#Selection_assistant|Selection Assistant]] in menu "Edit".

[[Image:auswassi_text_e.png]]

Example for the selection of texts of resistors having octagonal pads.

== Place a component property as text close to the symbol or package ==

In schematic and layout all properties a component has can be placed like a text aside of the component. First activate the text mode. Hover the cursor over the handle cross of the desired component. Now press keyboard key ["] for opening the text mode dialog "Text Options". Now choose the text function: "Special property" see image (section in red) 

[[image:BautBeschr1_e.jpg]] 

As soon as the special property as a text function is activated, a list opens from which you can select the desired property, e.g. "Last Modified", the date of the latest modification of a part. 

[[image:BautBeschr2_e.jpg]] 

Then press [OK] and confirm the dialog of the "Text Option" too. See the new text in the image below on the right hand side, the LAST MODIFIED-Date. You can select this text, place it at your convenience and change the font. Take care to have this text placed to an appropriate layer. In most cases it is layer 21,position top. If such a project variable or a component property is empty, the text <empty> is displayed. If you do not want this, you can enter a special space character in the property: Hold down the [Alt] key and type 0 1 6 0 in the numeric keypad. Then release [Alt] again. This creates this special space character.

[[image:BautBeschr3_e.jpg]] 

Please note, that you eventually have to release this button [[image:BautBeschr4.jpg]] for touching and selecting only the text. You'll find it in the [[Sidebar]] under section [[Sidebar#Section settings|Settings]]. 

== Write a comment next to a part ==

Press the keyboard key [Shift]+[2] to open the text dialog. The cursor changes its image, so you are in text mode.

[[Image:comment2_e.jpg]] 

Click '''[[M1]]''' where you want the first line of text to begin. The text dialog opens. Press the "multiline" button to open a text box. Enter your text here.

[[Image:comment3_e.jpg]] 

The result could look like this:

[[Image:comment4_e.jpg]] 

The square boxes of the blank lines indicate that the text is multi line (= quantity text). Double-click the box to enter something. Otherwise just highlight and delete them. You can double-click each line to edit it.
 

== Project Variables ==
If you want to have project variables shown (in e.g. schematics headers) do the following: 
- add text field Function "Special property" 
- Target will ask you the type. Create a new type, e.g. "document number" 
- Settings - Project Variables 
- add a new property type "document number" and give it a value like "T3001". (In some cases Target will add the types automatically, but I don't know when...) 
- Now you can add the same text function to multiple sheets and places and to update them easily. This makes updating the headers much more easily. I suggest adding required headers to a template you use. 
- Now the most important thing. To keep the content of field empty you need to give it a value ALT+160 (until filling with some other value is needed), like "reviewed" would be. 

 
== Text in ground plane ==

Please have a look here: [[Groundplane#Text_in_Ground_plane]]

 

== Font blurred, image unsharp ==

In case the whole text in dialogs appears unsharp or blurred, try and set a check mark in the properties of the TARGET exe (TarVxx.exe) as follows: 

[[Image:high_dpi.jpg|Tick box|none]]Image: Have a look at the properties of the TarVxx.exe - check the box "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by -> Application."
 

 

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Printing script format

2020-09-15T12:22:36Z

Pekka:

If each of your projects requires the printing of a certain set of layer configurations, it can be time consuming and prone to errors to configurate the printer new every time. In such situation it is easier to control the printing by the use of a written command (script). How such a script in TARGET 3001! might look like is explained here. 

The scripts can also be handled in menu ''File/Create PDF'' as well as in the print dialog: 
[[Image:Pdf_scripte_e.jpg]] Image: Menu File/Create PDF... 

The TARGET 3001! printings can comfortably be controlled by a script language. One script can create several different printings. Every line contains one command. The script commands reflect the settings in the printing dialog. Each line not starting with a key word automatically is recognized as a comment line. 
The key words and the command syntax of the TARGET 3001! print scripts are illustrated as follows: 

'''Clear'''
sets the standard settings: 
- not rotated 
- not mirrored 
- not inverted 
- black and white, if schematic 
- 1 copy 
- blackness 100% 
- not only centering drills 
- no pictograms 
- no background color 
- print groundplane lines 
- PCB outline counts, if board 
- not fit to page 
- centered 
- scale 100% 
- offsetX 0 
- offsetY 0 
- correction X 1 
- correction Y 1 
- all pages, if schematic 
- no variants 
- variant components not invisible 
- layers are not subject to change

'''Printer=Name,Duplex,A4'''
Select printer by it's name, if applicable Duplex or paper size A5-A2, Legal, Letter, CSheet, DSheet, ESheet

'''Name=Job'''
Denominate print job, therefore assign name of the print job 
The following keywords will be replaced: 
- #P (or $P$) by the project name without extention 
- #F by the file name with extention 
- #D by the current date yyyy-mm-dd 
- #T by the current time hh-mm 
- #V by the name of the variant 
- #R by the name of the revision 
- #Q by the name of the variant-revision 

'''Path=C:\Test\...'''
Assume path for the output file (works since V16.5.0.55 and only with the PDF printer [http://freepdfxp.de/index_en.html FreePDF-XP]). The same keywords will be replaced like in "Name=". Since V19: In the PDF dialog this is the filename for the PDF, e.g. C:\directory\test.PDF.
To refer to project folder use following ..\ (in windows)

'''Print'''
In the printing dialog: Execute print job, print sheet(s). If "PDF" can be found in the printer's name, you are asked after the "Print" command, whether the printer is ready again. "Print" does not work, if you are in the PDF dialog.

'''PDF'''
Since V19, in the PDF dialog: Save the PDF file to the "Path". "PDF" does not work, if you are in the printing dialog.

'''TIFF=Letter 300 C:\directory\Test.TIFF'''
In the printing dialog since V20.4.0.46: Create a TIFF file. Instead of Letter, a different sheet size can be specified, as in the TIFF dialog. Alternatively you can specify pixels directly: 2400/3500 as width/height. 300 stands for the resolution in DPI. In the following file name the replacements work like in the TIFF dialog. The "TIFF" command does not work if you are in the PDF dialog.

'''NewPage'''
From V19.5.0.84, start a new sheet in the PDF. "NewPage" will not work, if you are in the printer dialog.

'''Portrait'''
Sheet in portrait

'''Landscape'''
Sheet in landscape

'''Mirror=True/False'''
Mirror?

'''Inverted=True/False'''
Invert?

'''Color=True/False'''
Black-white?

'''Copies=1'''
Number of copies

'''Blackness=100'''
Grade of blackness in percent

'''SmallDrill=True/False'''
Only centering drillings?

'''Pictograms=True/False'''
Drillings as pictograms?

'''BackGround=True/False'''
Print background color?

'''GroundLines=True/False'''
Print ground lines?

'''PCBOutline=True/False'''
PCB outline counts?

'''SheetFit=True/False'''
Fit to sheet?

'''Center=True/False'''
Centering to the sheet?

'''Scale=100'''
Scale in percent

'''OffsetX=0'''
Horizontal offset in mm

'''OffsetY=0'''
Vertical offset in mm

'''CorrectX=1.0'''
Horizontal adjustment factor

'''CorrectY=1.0'''
Vertical adjustment factor

'''Pages=No/All/1-3'''
Which pages get printed? No (= only the current page); All; 1-3 (= pages one to three)

'''Variants=True/False'''
Print variants?

'''HideVariant=True/False'''
Shall variant parts be faded out?

'''Variant=Clear/Special'''
Print this variant as well. The name of the variant will be passed. Clear = reset all variants

'''LayerOff=All/0,1,2,23'''
These layers will be faded out. All = all

'''LayerOn=0,1,2,23'''
These layers will be faded in

'''LayerButton=3'''
This programmed layer button in the sidebar will be pressed and the layers contained get faded in

'''ShowNames=True/False'''
Show the component names in schematic view?

'''ShowValues=True/False'''
Show the component values in schematic view?

'''View=SCH/PCB'''
Toggle to the schematic or PCB view.

'''QUIET=TRUE'''
Questions are suppressed as far as possible: e.g. for overwriting PDF files or the question whether the PDF should be opened directly. (from V20.4.0.12)

Sample script to be used with "create pdf": 
Quiet=True 
Clear 
View=PCB 
Landscape 
Path=..\$P$_PCB_MECHANICAL.pdf 
Pictograms=False 
Color=True 
PCBOutline=True 
Scale=100 
OffsetX=20 
OffsetY=20 
LayerOff=All 
LayerOn=21,22,23,24 
PDF 

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