Create a Plot Frame

Introduction

Most companies report their data in a specified frame, see an example of the Deltares frame below.

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A frame consists out of an outer frame box and a table of frame texts at the bottom.

Steps

Startup/Open

To edit an existing frame, start streamFrameSetup and choose the frame file concerned.

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A section is being given an number and a line is labeled by a letter.
For each section and each line the positions are shown and can be edited. Positions are given in centimeters from the bottom left point.
A section or line can be selected by selecting it by a mouse click or choosing the section or line in the dropdown boxes. Selected sections and lines are being highlighted.

Define Sections

Section areas can be edited by merging adjacent sections or by changing the position of the lines.

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Splitting and moving lines and making lines invisible leads to this result:

Define Content

The content of each section can be defined by selecting a section an pressing the 'Edit' button, or by double clicking the section. Next screen appears.

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• Fixed: a fixed text.
• Variable: a variable text from a shortname of a Testdefinition.
• Image: an image from a file.

Close/Save

Formats

A frame is developed in A4 portrait, but can be applied for plots in A4 and A3 formats, portrait and landscape both. When applying in A3 landscape format, size of the frame texts remains unchanged, but the outer frame is extended.
When switching to another orientation, the whole frame is rotated 90 degrees clockwise, see examples below.

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