DrawWorks NEW Millennium

Main features

• On screen anti-aliasing
• Background font blending
• Set the default line width for Draw
• User selectable Grade and Interpolate levels
• Line width scalling nudge buttons
• Preferences option for Draw's default grade & interpolate levels
• Writable options for grid spacing and divisions.
• Always available on screen manual as well as printed manual

Toolbar features

• Autoscrolling toolbars that follow the mouse pointer
• Nudge buttons for font size, height and line width.
• Shows currently selected font size and line width ticked on menus.
• Writable pointsize and height options on font menus.
• Extended versions of Draws line width and point size menus.

Import and Export Tools

• TIFF import and 24 bit TIFF export at up to 1200dpi
• JPEG import and export up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
• Export as sprite up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
• GIF import and export at up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
• PNG import and export
• Export as SVG
• Import and export as WMF
• Import Artworks files
• Import or export as Illustrator EPS
• OLE editing of Sprite and JPEG images
• OLE editing of text areas

Other New Tools

• Bolt-on toolbar, allows other apps to be integrated into DrawWorks.
• Metaliser tool to shade objects with metallic tones
• FontFiend replaces Dr Fonty as font editor
• Tracing of Bitmap images to convert them to vectors
• Replace any colour with any other colour
• Keep one colour intact while replacing other colours
• Colour fitter - convert colours to their nearest named or Puretint equivalents
• Object rotation dialogue box
• Nudge buttons to rotate in 1 degree steps
• Flip objects in both X and Y Axis
• Object scaling dialogue box plus 5% nudge buttons.
• Scale an objects line widths without altering its size
• iDesigner font suggestion tool now integrated into DrawWorks

Improvements to existing features

• Soft edged shadows
• Use PureTint and named colours for shadows
• Use PureTint and named colours in the lining tool
• Automatically produce darker shades of named colours
• Control over grey component replacement when producing CMYK separations
• Anti-aliasing of JPEG images
• Export of sprites and GIFs at up to 1200dpi
• Import bitmap images as either 8 or 24bpp
• Import ArtWorks files as bitmaps

EPS (PostScript) improvements

• Improved EPS importer
• Adobe Illustrator 7 PostScript previews
• Include sprites in Illustrator EPS files
• Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts with full hinting
• Integrated PostScript compatible font names database

Additional features (using supplied bolt-on applications)

• Improved on screen rendering and dithering in 256 colour modes.
• Drawing of other shapes such as polygons, stars and crosses.
• Simple perspective drawing tool.
• Produce rotated and transformed patterns from objects.
• Gamma colour control for RISC PC monitors.
• Design on screen graph paper.
• Produce spirograph type patterns.
• Text based scripting langauge for producing Drawfiles.
• Export as WMF files.

Mr Clippy

• Now fully ImageFS2 compatible
• Auto conversion of upper case clip names from a CD
• Over 800 new high quality clip art examples
• New ClippyCopy - transfer clip art groups from old versions of Mr Clippy

Typography 2500

FontFiend

• PostScript Type1 font export with hinting
• Full automatic hinting system including scaffolds and skeletons
• Automatic character builder with EURO symbol support

General

• Tested on RISCOS 4 and other versions of RISCOS
• Over 540Mb of applications, fonts and clips, Requires OS 3.6+, 8Mb Ram, CD-ROM

Comments

• "A killer app..." Chris Hughes (Wakefield Acorn User Group)