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tpboard |
Longname: | t p aste board |  |
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| Last modified: | 6.82a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| See also: | tpgoto tplay tpsize colour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summary |
Creates and configures Arbortext APP's pasteboard. A pasteboard is a sort of pseudo-page that can appear alongside your displayed pages. Its main purpose is as a holding area for frames. Here are some examples of why you might want to hold frames separately from your pages: to move frames between pages; to create temporary frames for importing text/graphics; to see if there is any overmatter for a stream. The illustration shows a pasteboard being used to keep some notes. |
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The macro shown below sets up a pasteboard to the right of the document, allowing it 20 per cent of the work area when wfi is used.
This creates a pasteboard called pboard2 at the default size of 500 × 500mm. If you want to change the size of the pasteboard you first have to select it and then change page size, e.g.
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Syntax
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board_name:t?position:n?percent_fit:n?
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board_name:t |
The name of the pasteboard. If board_name does not already exist then pasteboard will be created. You can remove a pasteboard by specifying board_name as "" name, or create a new one with a default name by specifying board_name as "_". |
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percent_fit:n |
The percentage of the pasteboard to be displayed when calculating window fit with wfi. Larger values leave less space for the display of your document. |
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A document can contain any number of named pasteboards, although only one can be displayed at a time. Pasteboards work in a very similar way to named page styles created with tplay and are, like overlays and underlays, selected using the tpgoto macro. |
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The formatting and scroll to page operations may be slowed as the quantity and complexity of the data stored on the displayed pasteboard increases, for example large tables. |
 5.90a |
You can specify a set of default attributes for each frame drawn with this macro. To do this you will need to create a pasteboard called "_fdef_tfmk" using the tpboard macro. Then draw a frame on this pasteboard with the required attributes, e.g. background colour, frame rules. Then subsequent frames drawn on the page will also have these attributes. |
Document created on 08-Feb-2003 (revision 1)