| parameter | description | set by |
| Tc | Character Spacing - added to to glyph's displacement | Tc |
| Tw | Word Spacing - added to glyph displacement for ASCII SPACE | Tw |
| Th | Horizontal Scaling (percentage of normal width) | Tz |
| Tl | Leading (vertical space between lines)
used by the TD, T*, ', and " operators | TL TD |
| Tf | Text font | Tf |
| Tfs | Font size | Tf |
| Tmode | Text rendering mode
| 0 | fill text | | 1 | stroke text | | 2 | fill then stroke text | | 3 | neither fill nor stroke | | 4 | fill then add to path for clipping | | 5 | stroke then add to path for clipping | | 6 | fill, then stroke, then add to path for clipping | | 7 | add to path for clipping |
| Tr |
| Trise | Vertical shift from baseline | Ts |
| Tk | Text knockout | |
The first Td or TD in a text object (first after the BT) sets the starting location of this block of text. All further text movements are relative.