User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

• Shifted Japanese Industry Standard Code (SJIS): Sets the newer Shift JIS

character encoding standard which sets aside certain character codes to signal

the start of a two-character sequence.

• Extended Unix Code (EUC): Sets Extended Unix Code (EUC) character

encoding that is a multi byte character encoding system used primarily for

Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese.

• Unicode: Sets the Unicode character encoding where every two characters are

interoperated as one (not widely used).

• UTF-8: Sets UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) character

encoding that is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode.

• Default Text Orientation: Sets the default horizontal text orientation. Available

options are; Left, Center and Right.

• Default Text V. Orientation: Sets the default vertical text orientation. Available

options are; Top, First Line, Center and Bottom.

• Default Text Direction: Sets the default text direction. Available options are; Left

to Right, Right to Left and Top to Bottom.

• Font Handling: Sets the font handling. Available options are Font file or Complex

script.

• Font file: Sets the font kerning to Font file that is mainly used for languages

written from left to right.

• Complex script: Sets the font kerning to Complex script. Complex script is

mainly used for languages written from right to left and/or that one character

can be are composed of one or several Glyphs.

• Font Import: Sets the Font import. Available options are; File (Standard) and

Windows (Advanced).

• File (Standard): Imports and stores fonts on the database.

• Windows (Advanced): Stores only the font name on the database. For this

to work the font must be installed on the Windows system where Viz Engine

resides.

• Blur Import: Enables blur levels for fonts used in Viz 2.x scenes. These options will

make sure that fonts imported to Viz 3.x will be recreated with all blur levels used in

Viz 2.x. Available options are Blur 1-4.

• Outline Import: Enables outline levels for fonts used in Viz 2.x scenes. These

options will make sure that fonts imported to Viz 3.x will be recreated with all outline

levels used in Viz 2.x. Available options are Outline 1-3.

• Calculate Max Bounding Box Size: Enables Viz 3.x to calculate the bounding

boxes as they were calculated in Viz 2.x. In Viz 3.x a text object’s bounding box

height will increase if a capital character is entered (e.g. an umlaut (double dots)).

In viz 2.x the bounding box height was always the same and independent of the

characters in the text object. Available options are Active and Inactive. Default is

Inactive (false).

• Replace missing Characters with: Replaces a missing font character in a font

file with a default font character. The Unicode value refers to the decimal value of

the replacement character in the Unicode table (valid values are 0-65553). Normal

usage would select a * (42) or _ (95).