Making your own album 30

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5.5.2     Rectangled boxes with incomplete border styles

What should we do, when we want to create boxes for shapes that aren’t available in AlbumEasy 4.2.1… Free shapes, heptagons, …

Of course we can use one of the available shapes, but then we need to make extra large boxes, or the existing frame will dissapear (partly) behind the shape of the item we plan to add.
A more subtle solution might be indicating where the object can be placed, without drawing the full (square) box.  This can also be interesting, for normal (rectangular) boxes, as the page will look ‘lighter’, when only the corners are indicated.

For this new command, 4 possible corner elements are available for the boxes. This option is ONLY possible for rectangular boxes!

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER XX XX)

The XX should be replaced by:

TL : TOP LEFT
TR : TOP RIGHT
BL : BOTTOM LEFT
BR : BOTTOM RIGHT

Similar to the ‘dotted’ and ‘dashed’ border styles, this new command is valid as long as we don’t indicate another style; or, till the end of the page. To return to the normal (full line) border frame, we use again the ‘SOLID’ -command.

For this command, we use a new page.!

PAGE_START

PAGE_TEXT (HB 11 "Only corner markers")
ROW_START_FS (HN 8 0.1 16.0)

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER)
STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "All" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TL BR)
STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Left\n&\nBottom Right" "" " " "")
STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TR BL)
STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Right\n&\nBottom Left" "" " " "")
STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (SOLID)
ROW_ALIGN_TOP

Generate the PDF, and close afterwards

Corner markers only

This presentation makes the page a lot ‘lighter’

Although very unlikely, it is possible to show the corner markers only on one side too… You can even only use one corner, of only omit one.
Just to be complete, all options :

# All corner markers on one side

ROW_START_FS (HN 8 0.1 16.0)

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TR TL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Left\n&\nTop Right" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER BL BR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Bottom Right\n&\nBottom Left" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (SOLID)

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TR BR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Right\n&\nBottom Right" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TL BL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Left\n&\nBottom Left" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (SOLID)

 

# Showing only one corner

ROW_START_FS (HN 8 0.1 16.0)

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Right only" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER BL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Bottom Left only" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER BR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Bottom Right only" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Left only" "" " " "")

 

# Omitting only one corner

ROW_START_FS (HN 8 0.1 16.0)

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TR TL BL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Bottom Right open" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER BL TR BR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Left open" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER BR BL TL)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Top Right open" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (CORNER TL TR BR)

STAMP_ADD (22.0 24.0 "Bottom Left open" "" " " "")

STAMP_BORDER_STYLE (SOLID)

all variations on incomplete corner markers

End of Module 3 … In Module 4 we will see even more possibilities!
to be continued...

 

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