Attribute Values

Attribute Values

Paper Units

Some of the element attributes in the file can be specified in paper units. The unit should be written immediately after the nominal value ("10mm") or a space between ("10 mm").

The following units are supported:

• pt - points (default)
• mm - millimeter
• cm - centimeter
• in - inch

If no unit is provided, points (pt) is assumed.

Map Units

Some of the element attributes may be specifies in map units or in latitude/longitude units:

For coordinate values, the following units are supported:

• m - meter (default)
• km - kilometer
• ft - feet
• mi - miles
• nm - nautical miles

For longitude and latitude values, the following units are supported:

• deg - degrees
• min - minutes
• sec - seconds (default)

Fractions

Some elements are specified as fractions of a containing dimension. These values can be either specified as percent as in "50%", as a floating number as in "0.5", or as a fraction as in "1/2".

Color

Some elements requires you to specify a color. This can be specified by their name, by their RGB components or the CMYK components. If your intent is to produce a frame for print, use CMYK-specifiers, otherwise, use RGB or named colors.

Colors can be specified in the following ways:

• color name - Simply specify the name of the color. The color names
  recognized are the same colors that are defined in the colors class
  of the rebortlab.lib module.

• cmyk(<cyan>,<magenta>,<yellow>,<black>)</black></yellow></magenta></cyan> - Specifies in percent, the
  components of he color. For example the following value specifies the
  /brown/ color: cmyk(0,56,100,20)

• rgb(<red>,<green>,<blue>)</blue></green></red> - Specifies in range 0 to 255 the amount of
  red green and blue. The following value specifies yellow:
  rgb(255,255,0).

• #<red><green><blue></blue></green></red> - Specifies the color using Web specification.
  rgb(255,255,0) equals #FFFF00.

Fonts

Currently, mapframer only supports the following fonts.

Helvetica	Times-Roman		Courier
Helvetica-Bold	Times-Bold		Courier-Bold
Helvetica-Oblique	Times-Italic		Courier-Oblique
Helvetica-BoldOblique	Times-BoldItalic		Courier-BoldOblique