Command examples


PAGE_START_VAR command

This command adjusts the spacing of a page independently from the rest of the album.
For example an album was created with ALBUM_PAGES_SPACING (5.0 5.0) which set the page spacing to 5.0mm in both the horizontal and vertical directions. One of the pages overflowed the bottom border as shown by the left image. To correct the page, the spacing of the whole album could have been changed or the set of stamps could have been split onto two pages. Alternatively as illustrated in the image on the right, the spacing of the offending page can be adjusted independently. A PAGE_START_VAR (5.0 2.0) command reduced the vertical spacing to 2.0mm allowing all stamps to fit on the page.


ROW_ALIGN_TOP, ROW_ALIGN_MIDDLE and ROW_ALIGN_BOTTOM commands

The following diagram illustrates the affect that each of these commands has on the vertical row alignment:


STAMP_ADD_BLANK command

The following diagram illustrates how this command can be used to insert spacing between stamps in a row:


PAGE_TEXT_VSPACE and PAGE_TEXT_CENTRE_VSPACE commands

Paragraphs of text output by the PAGE_TEXT and PAGE_TEXT_CENTRE commands are followed by blank space. This space, set by means of the ALBUM_PAGES_SPACING command, remains constant for the whole album.
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The PAGE_TEXT_VSPACE and PAGE_TEXT_CENTRE_VSPACE commands allow for this spacing to be set for an individual paragraph. This can be used for example to output paragraphs of text containing lines in different fonts:


STAMP_HEADING_VA and STAMP_HEADING commands

The following diagram illustrates the difference between the STAMP_HEADING_VA and STAMP_HEADING commands, showing how the STAMP_HEADING_VA command vertically aligns headings above a row of stamps:


STAMP_HEADING_VA and STAMP_HEADING commands offset parameter

By default headings are centred above a stamp. However, both these commands take an optional offset parameter that can shift the heading horizontally. The following diagram illustrates how a heading over the first stamp can be shifted by means of this optional parameter: