Fractal Design Expression(tm) 1.0 - Windows Demo Version -- Read Me File WELCOME Welcome to Fractal Design Expression - The Revolutionary Natural-Media(TM) Vector Drawing Tool. Please be sure to read this document for important information about this version that may not be included in the printed documentation. This demo version has the following features disabled : -Save -Save As -Save As Bitmap -Save As Movie -Copy/Paste to other Applications To order your fully working version, please contact Fractal Design Sales at 1-800-846-0111 REGISTRATION We strongly encourage you to register your copy of Expression. The benefits of registration include: * Free technical support via phone, email, online services or the World Wide Web. * Advance information on future releases. * Special offers available to Fractal Design customers only * Notification of updates and patches. DOCUMENTATION ERRATA After the documentation was sent to print several additions were made to the application. If the cursor is over a stroke and you click on the right mouse button, a context sensitive menu appears which includes option to edit the stroke definition or reverse its path. Two new menu items were added to the Stroke menu. Reset Stroke Shear sets the shear angle to any selected stroke or strokes back to 0 degrees. Reverse Ribbon Folds works on any selected stroke or strokes drawn in Ribbon mode. If a ribbon stroke overlaps itself, selecting the Reverse Ribbon Folds command will change the drawing order of how the stroke overlaps. MANAGING YOUR STROKES Expression lets you load hundreds of strokes into your Stroke Warehouse. Depending on the number and complexity of those strokes, and your system configuration, this may result in slower performance within the application. To maintain high-levels of performance, you may want to limit the number and complexity of strokes that are loaded at one time. MANAGING PATTERNS Expression uses a system pattern file to automatically load various patterns into the pattern list in the Paint Style dialog and Hatching... dialog. To conserve RAM not all patterns included with Expression are loaded into the pattern file. There are several Expression files in the PATTERNS folder that contain dozens of patterns. To use any of the patterns in these files, simply open them and Expression will automatically add them into your pattern list. When you close the pattern file they will be removed from the pattern list, but any documents you've created with those patterns will continue to store them. PRINTING There may be some cases where Expression will have difficulty printing a file to a PostScript printer. This might occur if you use transparent strokes or if you've created a very complex file. If this occurs you may want to choose the "Rasterize Before Printing" checkbox in the Print dialog and select the appropriate dpi setting for your printer. CORELDRAW EXPORT This version of Expression does not support CMX (Corel exchange format)export. To move an Expression file to CorelDraw, first save it as an Adobe Illustrator file, which can be imported by CorelDraw. CMX support will be available in an upcoming version. This will be made available as an online updater as soon as it becomes available. Be sure to check our website at www.fractal.com or our AOL forum (keyword: FRACTAL) You can also order updated versions directly from Fractal sales at 1-800-846-0111. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Expression is designed specifically to run on Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0. You can install Expression on a Windows 3.1 based PC, but performance may suffer. Expression for Windows requires a 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro PC with a minimum of 16MB of RAM, and a CD-ROM player. Many of the answers to your questions, along with tips and tricks may already be posted on our web site. Be sure to check out the technical support pages on the Fractal Design web site. Internet: http://www.fractal.com/support/tech ------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1996 Fractal Design Corporation, all rights reserved. Fractal Design Expression and Natural-Media are trademarks of Fractal Design Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Creature House and Skeletal Strokes are trademarks of Creature House Ltd. Fractal Design Expression was developed by Creature House Ltd. and Fractal Design Corp.