Printronix ThermaLine Series - Manual (Page 306)

Form Examples and Exercises 6–38
Planning the Form Layout
In this example, assume you work for the HandCraft Boat Company. Your
slogan is “Quality boats crafted by hand,” and the owner, Mr. Handcraft, has
asked you to design a simple form that his salespeople can use for special
orders. On the form, he wants a logo, the slogan, the customer’s name,
spaces for other particulars of the order, and a bar code to distinguish the
sales region and boat division from other HandCraft enterprises. Begin this
12–step task as described below.
1. First, design the form on the Standard Grid provided in Appendix B.
Figure 6–11 shows the locations of the various form components.
Compensate for expanded characters and plan for the logo.
2. Define the logo and then return to the form to add all the form
components. Modify the hand logo already on file as the HandCraft
logo. Use the Logo Grid in Appendix B, and refer to Figure 6–12, which
shows the dot positions of the hand logo with a boat added to the hand.
When dot positions (or a range of dot positions) are not specified, the
boat image in the hand emerges.
3. Open a file named HNDCFT.FOM to contain all the form information.
As shown in the following example, use the Create Logo mode
command, name the logo HANDCRFT, specify the logo height (VL)
and width (HL), enter the dot positions used, and end the Logo
command.