Edit Vector Lines

Use the Vector Line Editor dialog to control the display of lines or activities. If you insert a line and the line should be printed as a solid line from start to end, then check the option System line. This will bring a better quality to line printing.

Edit and/or define the Name, Display, and Formatting of a current Vector Line. Already existing Vector Line Endings can be changed, fitted, or new endings can be redefined completely.

It is also possible to copy existing line styles. Therefore press the button 'Save as' and enter a new name to identify the copied Vector Line.

Ways to access

Note: Colors are defined on the level of the object later. They are not part of the definition of vector lines.

Options

Beneath these items, the dialog contains an integrated Vector Line toolbar. 

Tilos provides the following objects for Vector Line styles:

Table

Activate or inactivate the alignment of objects

At the right sideTilosdisplays a complete preview of the currently selected/ defined Vector Line.

The main section of the Vector Line Editor contains three WYSIWYG (acronym for "What You See Is What You Get") editor previews:

Start | Line | End

Define a Vector Line with a Start and/ or End Symbol

Edit the WYSIWYG editor previews 'Start' and/or 'End'.

Already existing Vector Line Endings can be copied from the Graphic Library/ Vector Lines. Press the required button 'Copy from ...'.

Select a Vector Line ending and confirm with 'OK'. A copied element can be modified as well inside the WYSIWYG editor preview.

Add the required objects and enter in the section 'Object attributes' the Width.

To delete an element of an object press the DEL key of the keyboard.

To add Text Comments, enter inside the section 'Object attributes' the Text, Font and Font Size.

Define a Vector Line without a Start and/ or End Symbol

Edit the WYSIWYG editor preview 'Line'.

Add the required objects and enter in the section 'Object attributes' the Width.

To delete an element of an object press the DEL key of the keyboard.

To add Text Comments, enter inside the section 'Object attributes' the Text, Font and Font Size.

Scaling

Inside the section 'Scaling' enter a required the scaling value for the current selected object element of a Vector Line in Start | Line | End.

To control the results of a redefined resp. defined Vector Line style see the WYSIWYG editor previews.

Confirm the created Vector Line with 'OK' or leave the dialog without saving pressing 'Cancel'.

Press 'Save as ...' to store the new Vector Line inside the Graphic Library/ Vector Lines.