What is a Pen?

Pens are used to draw and control the appearance of LineString items and the colour of Text items.

A Pen has a colour, a set thickness and a specific linestyle.

A Pen can also exist on multiple levels (multi-level Pen) and have:

• an offset
• symbols which draw at the start and end of the LineString item.
• a user-defined pattern
• symbols which draw at intervals along a LineString item

Note: An extensive selection of Pens and brushes are included with SIS Desktop 9.1. You can also create your own. See Creating, Choosing and Editing Pens.

Pen (and brush) definitions are stored in Named Object Libraries.

A Pen can be specifically assigned to individual items or to an overlay so that all items on the overlay use the same Pen by default.

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