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Skinparam: WICHTIGER HINWEIS

skinparam ist jetzt veraltet und wird nicht mehr verwendet.

Obwohl es für einfache Fälle und aus Gründen der Abwärtskompatibilität noch unterstützt wird, sollten Benutzer auf CSS-Stil umsteigen, der komplexere Gestaltungsszenarien unterstützt.

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Skinparam command

You can change colors and font of the drawing using the skinparam command.

Example:

skinparam backgroundColor transparent

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Usage

You can use this command :

In the diagram definition, like any other commands,
In an included file,
In a configuration file, provided in the command line or the ANT task.

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Nested

To avoid repetition, it is possible to nest definition. So the following definition :

skinparam xxxxParam1 value1
skinparam xxxxParam2 value2
skinparam xxxxParam3 value3
skinparam xxxxParam4 value4

is strictly equivalent to:

skinparam xxxx {
    Param1 value1
    Param2 value2
    Param3 value3
    Param4 value4
}

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Black and White

You can force the use of a black&white output using skinparam monochrome true command.

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Shadowing

You can disable the shadowing using the skinparam shadowing false command.

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Reverse colors

You can force the use of a black&white output using skinparam monochrome reverse command. This can be useful for black background environment.

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Colors

You can use either standard color name or RGB code.

transparent can only be used for background of the image.

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Font color, name and size

You can change the font for the drawing using xxxFontColor, xxxFontSize and xxxFontName parameters.

Example:

skinparam classFontColor red
skinparam classFontSize 10
skinparam classFontName Aapex

You can also change the default font for all fonts using skinparam defaultFontName.

Example:

skinparam defaultFontName Aapex

Please note the fontname is highly system dependent, so do not over use it, if you look for portability. Helvetica and Courier should be available on all systems.

A lot of parameters are available. You can list them using the following command:

java -jar plantuml.jar -language

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Text Alignment

Text alignment can be set to left, right or center in skinparam sequenceMessageAlign. You can also use direction or reverseDirection values to align text depending on arrow direction.

Param name	Default value	Comment
sequenceMessageAlign	left	Used for messages in sequence diagrams
sequenceReferenceAlign	center	Used for `ref over` in sequence diagrams