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Pearl-2 User Guide Add a text overlay
Add a text overlay
Text overlays are useful to add information like a title, location, or the date and time in to layouts in your
channel. You can add text to any layout using the custom layout editor. The following tables lists shortcut
codes that you can enter and the resulting content that appears on screen.
Table 47 Overlay text shortcut codes
Item Shortcut code Example
date %F 2012-01-26
year %G 2012
month (01) %m 01
month (Jan) %b Jan
month (January) %B January
day of the month %d 26
weekday (Thu) %a Thu
weekday (Thursday) %A Thursday
time %T 08:40:45
hour %k 08
minute %M 40
second %S 45
millisecond %#m 378
channel name %c CameraFeed 1
If you use a non-monospaced font, the size of the text overlay changes as the letters, numbers,
and the length of words change. Use a monospaced font to maintain a consistent size for the text
overlay (assuming the total number of characters in the text string doesn't change).
To add a text overlay to your layout:
1. Login to the Admin panel as admin, see Connect to the Admin panel.
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