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Explode Text (ExpTex)

Type: Interactive/Batch Application

 

Explodes text label into lines.

Detailed Description

Explodes text label into lines. Explode Text may be run interactively, in which each text label is identified before it is exploded, or it may be run in batch mode, in which all the text labels in a layer or group of layers is exploded. The application also supports the necessary key-ins to allow it to be placed in a macro. When a text label is exploded, it is placed into the same layer as the original text. This application is undoable.

Local Commands

Key-in

Description

Range

WS=

Workspaces to consider

0-1

LAY=

Layers containing text labels to explode

1-10,001 (Number line)

RUN

Runs Explode Text with current parameters

 

Parameters

The WS=, LAY= and RUN parameters are provided so that Explode Text may be run unattended from a macro. Following is an example macro that runs Explode Text:

 

ExpText

WS=1

LAY=10 23-35

RUN

 

When the RUN command completes, Explode Text exits.

Button Assignments

Exp Text – Lock on

 

Button

Description

1

Id Text

Identifies text label to explode.

2

Explode layer

Explodes text labels in defined layers in batch mode.

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End

Ends application.