Text Frame

A Text frame can be used to display a title, a note, or any kind of textual information. For example, a text frame may contain notes about geological features, the grade modelling technique applied to the data, or summaries of resource tonnages and grades for a particular section.

Text can be entered manually or be imported from a text file. The appearance of the text can be altered by changing the font and colour attributes of the text.

To add a new Text frame:

  1. Double-click on the Text frame type in the Plot Forms pane.
  2. In the Source tab, specify whether free text or the text in a file will be shown in the frame.

    3. Free Text

    The easiest way to add simple text to a text frame is to enter text in the edit control provided.

    For longer text, or for variable text, you may prefer to load it from a text file.

    File Text

    Double-click (F3) to select a Plot text file. A Plot Data Set (.PED) file defines the lines of text that will be written in a Text frame

    Double-click in the Data set input box and select one of the data sets in the .PED file:

    From Line, To Line

    If you only want to include selected lines from the data set, enter the Start and End line numbers.

  1. Set the layout of the text in the Options tab.
  2. Set the fill, border, and margin properties of the frame in the Frame tab.
  1. Finally, click OK to add the Text frame to the layout.

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