Engraving Terminology For The Engraver

Before you start inputting data into the Vision Windows program, let’s review the engraving terminology used in the New Job screen.

Plate Width
The actual width of your engraving plate

Plate Height
The actual height of your engraving plate

Baseline
The distance or measurement from the bottom of the text or object line from the top of the page

A formula for determining the Baseline is

Baseline = [(Plate Height - Letter Height) / 2] + Letter Height

Left Margin
The distance from the left side of the plate to the left edge that the lettering/object is allowed

Right Margin
The distance from the right side of the plate to the left edge that the lettering/object is allowed.

Line Height
The height of the letter/object.

Font Style
Also referred to as lettering or type style. The style of writing used. Once this field is selected our highlighted, use the space bar to toggle through the default fonts, loaded fonts or loaded logos.

Text Length
Actual width of lettering. Cannot exceed plate width minus margins.

Justification
The horizontal positioning or alignment of text relevant to the margins. Text can be left jus­tified, center justified, and right justified.

Condensation
Each letter style has its on individual characteristics. One of these is the condensation. Below are several font styles. Notice that each font has a different letter width or condensa­tion. All of these fonts are show at their normal, or 100% condensation. Increasing the con­densation stretches the letter and decreasing condenses or compresses the letter/font style.

Condensation is when you have a line of fixed length and you try to compress a line of text that normally would exceed that length. VISION will automatically adjust the condensation and inter-character spacing (the spacing between each character) to make the text fit.

Condensation Mode  

• Equal Height Lines condense all lines with the same height equally, at the condensation rate of the longest line.
• All Lines Equally allocates the condensation of the longest line to all of the other lines.
• Individual Lines will treat every line in the job separately.

Inter Char Spacing
The spacing between the characters in a line.

Italicization
This allows yu to italicize or slant your text to the left or right.  If you type a positive number in, the text will slant to the right by the amount of degrees entered.  If you type a negative number in, the text will slant to the left by the amount of degrees entered.