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DrawWorks Third Millennium

Now includes full colour 60 page printed manual.

The new printed manual is available on its own for £7.50 or £8.50 outside the UK.

Main New Features

• Compatible with future versions of RISC OS.
• Works on all versions of RISC OS from 3.1 onwards.
• Faster than any previous Millennium version of DrawWorks.
• Over 50% less processor load than any previous version.
• Autoscroll or manual scroll toolbars.
• Autoscroll toolbars now move much faster.
• DrawWorks toolbar now stays on screen whenever a Draw window is open.
• All features now work with !DrawDA.
• New microbar with commonly used features.
• Line width, colour, rotate and scale options always available.
• Font and pt size menus always available.


New Tools

• Export as SVG option.
• Export as PDF option (using GhostScript).
• Writable options for start cap and end cap menus.
• Nudge buttons for start and end cap triangle options.
• Freehand drawing mode.
• DWDistort tool to distort objects visually by dragging.
• Extract the text from text objects automatically.
• Export all text objects from a drawfile in one text file.
• Text Area control tool including font and point size.
• Change the number of columns in a text area easily and quickly.
• Set margins, line spacing and paragraph spacing for text areas.

EPS Improvements

• Double click an EPS file and it loads into Draw.
• Unclosed objects render correctly in Adobe Illustrator

Improvements to existing features

• Export GIF with NetSafe colour palette.
• New moulds for the path moulder.
• Path moulder can now handle grouped moulds.
• Shadow tool auto groups all soft shadow layers.
• Start cap and end cap menus tick to show current selection.
• JPEG export tool improved.
• Re-designed preferences window.
• Nudge buttons no longer "Stick" in down position.

General

• Tested on RISCOS 4 and !DrawDA.
• A number of internal routines have been optimised for use on non SA machines.
• Requires OS 3.1 or later, 4Mb RAM, CD-ROM and Hard Disk Drive.