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- Chameleon 2.00
- ==============
- by David Caughley & Paul LeBeau & Rob McKay
- for 4Mation
-
- March 1992
-
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- Chameleon is a Drawfile utility program. It allows the colours of Drawfiles
- to be easily changed.
-
-
- Operating Instructions
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-
- To use Chameleon:
-
- 1. Load Chameleon by double clicking the SELECT mouse button on the
- !Chameleon application.
-
- 2. Drawfiles can be loaded into Chameleon by dragging them onto the
- Chameleon icon which is on the icon bar.
-
- 3. Use the toolbox & menu to select the operation to be performed.
-
- 4. Clicking on the picture will apply the current operation to the
- target object(s) on which you click the SELECT mouse button.
-
- 5. Clicking on an object with ADJUST will take the colour from the object
- (where you clicked) and use it as the current replacement color.
-
- 6. Double-clicking on a fountain filled object with ADJUST will
- change the current operation to the same fountain fill as the
- object, and the start & end colours will be copied from
- the object.
-
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- Outline
- -------
-
- The "Outline" button (toolbox third row, second from right):
-
- When the "Outline" button is on, all SELECT and ADJUST clicks will
- only apply to the outline of a path object. The outline is also made
- "thicker" when you click on it - making it easier to hit.
-
-
- Fill
- ----
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- The "Fill" button (toolbox third row, on the right):
-
- When the "Fill" button is on, all SELECT and ADJUST clicks will
- only apply to the fill of a path object. The outline is also made
- "thicker" when you click on it - making it easier to hit objects
- which have a transparent fill.
- Furthermore, text objects and text areas are selected by their
- bounding boxes when the "Fill" button is on.
-
-
-
- Keys:
- ----
-
- SHIFT with SELECT or ADJUST Toggles the "Outline" button's effect.
- with SELECT DRAG When dragging one end of an arrow,
- pressing SHIFT will cause the whole
- arrow (both ends) to move together.
-
- CTRL with SELECT or ADJUST Toggles the "Fill" button's effect.
- with SELECT DRAG When dragging one end of an arrow,
- pressing CTRL will cause the angle
- of the arrow to be limited to
- mulitples of 15 degrees.
-
-
-
- ARROW The arrow keys will move the mouse pointer in steps of one pixel.
- KEYS
-
- CTRL F2 Closes the current window.
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- F3 Save the current picture.
-
- SHIFT F3 Save the current picture as a directory containing four drawfiles,
- one each for the four standard colour separations C,M,Y,K.
-
- CTRL F3 Save the current picture as a directory containing one drawfile
- for every colour present (up to 64 separations).
-
- F5 Toggle Full view on and off. Note that zooming is not available
- whilst Full view is on.
-
- CTRL F1 or
- F6 Toggles the toolbox on and off.
-
- F7 Toggle the "lock" on and off. When a window is locked, its picture
- can't be altered by clicking SELECT on it.
-
- F8 Undo the last colour change.
-
- F9 Redo the last colour change that was undone.
-
- PAGE UP Zoom in on the point where the mouse pointer is.
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- PAGE DOWN Zoom out from the point where the mouse pointer is.
-
- HOME Restore the zooming factors to 1:1
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- Q,W,E,R,T
- Select the options from the top row of the toolbox.
-
- A,S,D,F,G,H,J
- Select the options from the second row of the toolbox.
-
- Z,X,C,V, ,N,M
- Select the options from the third row of the toolbox.
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