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- !DrawRot
- ==============
- v 1.03 3/3/97
-
- This application enables pattens and borders to be
- generated from draw files.
-
- Drag a simple drawfile to the icon bar icon. A window
- will open displaying the original file on the left
- and the pattern generated on the right.
-
- The icons in the lower part of the window control the pattern.
- The easiest way to see what they do is to load a very simple
- file - such as a leaf pattern - and play with it.
-
- Rotation: clicking on one of the nine buttons determines
- the centre of rotation of the drawfile.
-
- Arrangement: the input file may be rotated before the pattern
- is made, and alternate repeats may be reflected in
- the x and/or y axes.
-
- Options: This sections fixes the number of repeats of the input file,
- the angle of the first repeat and the radius of a blank circle
- in the centre of the pattern.
- Setting this to 0 gives a snowflake effect, while large values
- allow borders to be made.
- The Eccentricity value changes the circles into ellipses - tall
- if the value is greater than one and wide if if it less than one.
-
- A final option box determines whether a bounding circle should be added
- round the outside of the pattern and round the centre blank if
- the radius is non-zero.
- This band is a single path that lies behind the pattern in the
- resulting drawfile so that it can be filled in !Draw if desired.
-
- After changing any of these settings, click on Apply to see the effect.
-
- The original file can be exported to Draw for editing by CTRL double-
- clicking on it. Saving the file to the filename suggested by Draw will
- load the modified file into DrawRot.
- Because the program runs more slowly while waiting for an exported file to be
- resaved, the icon-bar icon allows you to tell DrawRot that you have abandoned
- an edit if that is the case.
-
- Clicking the Save button allows the pattern to be saved to disc or directly
- into Draw. Elaborate patterns can be built up by saving a pattern back into
- Drawrot, when it becomes the input for a new pattern.
-
- This menu also allows you to specify that the bounding boxes of the various
- Draw paths should be displayed. This is sometimes helpful in seeing how the
- patterns are formed.
-
- If you use the System font, rename the file Res as ResFont and /then/ ResSys as Res to get a better display
-
-
- Mrs A. R. Miskin miskin@argonet.co.uk
- 23 Hardwick Drive http://argonet.co.uk/users/miskin
- Loughborough
- Leics
- LE11 4TJ
-
-
- v1.03 2/3/97 System font templatesadded
- v1.02 25/1/97 Fixed display bug with RO3.1
- v1.01 8/8/96 First released version
-
-
- Future plans :
-
- • Handle text without converting to paths.