HP PCL/PJL reference (PCL 5 Printer Language) - Technical Reference Manual Part II

22-4 The Line and Fill Attributes Group EN
Using Fill Types
Using the Fill Type (FT) command adds detail to your drawings and
increases their visual effectiveness. The fill type affects the RA (Fill
Rectangle Absolute), RR (Fill Rectangle Relative), WG (Fill Wedge),
FP (Fill Polygon) commands, and CF (Character Fill) commands.
PCL 5 printers support solid, parallel line, (hatching), HP-GL/2
cross-hatch, raster fill (shading is a special type of raster fill), and
PCL cross hatch and PCL user-defined fills. Figure 22-3 shows the
first four types. The user-defined fill type shown on the right can be
printed using the HP-GL/2 RF (raster fill) command. User-defined fills
can also be selected with the FT (Fill Type) command after having
been created in PCL context (see “User-Defined Raster Graphics”
in Chapter 13.
Figure 22-3 Fill Types
When you use HP-GL/2 hatching or cross-hatch fill types, the lines
are drawn using the currently selected line width, type, and attributes.
For example, if you have selected a dashed line type and a hatched
fill type, your figure is filled with dashed, parallel lines. All fill types
have an anchor corner, the starting point of the fill pattern. Its
default location is in the lower-left corner of the PCL Picture Frame.
Conceptually, the fill type replicates out from the anchor corner in
the plus X-directions and plus Y-directions, as shown in the following
illustration. Figures are filled by that portion of the fill type resident to
the area (refer to rectangles 1 and 2).
EW, Edge Wedge
FP, Fill Polygon
RA, Fill Rectangle Absolute
RR, Fill Rectangle Relative
WG, Fill Wedge
Table 22-2 Commands Affectedby Line Types (continued)