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Editing session

An editing session begins when a Micrografx application is started, and ends when the application is closed.


Using Help
Using On-line Help

On-line help messages provide detailed information about commands and dialog boxes.

Accessing On-line Help

You can access help one of two ways. The first way involves pressing f1. When you press f1, you receive a help message specific to the command or dialog box choose or open.

The second way involves using the Help menu. The Help menu lets you see an index of topics.

Jump Terms

Some help messages contain underlined words and phrases called "jump" terms. A jump term takes you to a related message for that term. Jump terms let you move throughout the help system without returning to the Help menu.

Printing Help

You can print a help message using the Print Topic command in the File menu of the Help window.

To print a help message:

·	Choose the Print Topic command in the File menu.

Closing Help

You can close help and return to the dialog box in one of three ways.

·	Double click the Control menu box in the Help window.

·	Choose the Exit command in the File menu of the Help window.

·	Choose the Close command in the Control menu of the Help window.

Micrografx Help

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WPG Translator Help Topics

Importing from WPG

Exporting to WPG

WPG Output Filter Setup Dialog Box

Creating a New Profile

New Profile Menu Dialog Box

Import Considerations

Export Considerations

INI File Settings

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Converting Text to Curves


WPG Export Setup Dialog Box
WPG Output Filter Setup Dialog Box

The WPG Output Filter dialog box opens when you choose the WPG - WordPerfect Graphics option in the Export dialog box, and then click the Setup button.

Profiles

You can choose the Standard Options, Monochrome Printing, or a profile you have created, depending on the format you want.

New Button

Click New to create a new profile. The New Profile Menu dialog box opens. Type a name in the Profile Name box, and choose an existing profile on which to base the new profile from the Template Profile list box. Your choices for color translation, line mode, background rectangle, text as curves, and gradients are saved to the new profile. Profiles you create are saved with an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the name.

Delete Button

To delete a profile you have created, choose the profile name in the Profiles list box and click the Delete button. You cannot delete the original profiles.

Color Translation

Choosing Normal exports all colors in the Designer drawing to the nearest available color in the WPG format. If you choose Inverse, black is changed to white, red is changed to green, blue is change to yellow, and so on.

Choose Gray Scale to change each color to a corresponding shade of gray. Choose Inverse Grays Only to change only the gray colors to their inverse color (that is, dark gray to light gray, light gray to dark gray). Choose Inverse Gray Scale to change all colors to their inverse shades of gray.

Line Mode

You can choose either Device or Stroked. When you choose Device, all exported lines are mapped and converted to the closest matching line style in the WPG format. Choosing Stroked exports all lines with an exact simulation of the original line styles and caps.

Fill Mode

You can choose either Device or Stroked. When you choose Device, all exported fills are mapped and converted to the closest matching fill style in the WPG format. Choosing Stroked exports all lines with an exact simulation of the original fill styles.

Export Gradients Option

This option lets you select whether you want gradient fills to be exported using a solid color (if deselected), or simulated by converting the gradient to many solid-filled polygons before it is exported (if selected). Exporting a gradient fill as a solid color saves disk space. Exporting a simulated gradient retains the same appearance, but uses more disk space.

Export Text as Curves Option

This option lets you select whether you wish text to be exported as text, or simulated by first converting the text to curves before it is exported. Text that is exported as text will lose special attributes such as line fills, and might map to a different font than the one selected. However, such text can still be edited.

Text that is exported as curves will retain the same appearance, but cannot be edited as text in the target application. Only text in a scalable font can be converted to curves.

OK Button

The OK button closes the WPG Output Filter Setup dialog box and saves the configuration settings for use with all following translations.

Cancel Button

The Cancel button closes the WPG Output Filter Setup dialog box without saving any changes to the configuration settings.

Related Topics

Procedure information

Creating a New Profile

New Profile Menu Dialog Box

INI File Settings

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Export Considerations


New Profile Menu Dialog Box

The New Profile Menu dialog box lets you name a new profile and select an existing profile on which to base the new one.

Profile Name

You can type a name in the Profile Name box.

Template Profile

You can choose an existing profile name from the Template Profile list box (including ones you have already created) on which to base your new profile.

Related Topics

Creating a New Profile

WPG Output Filter Setup Dialog Box


Creating a New Profile

To create a new profile:

1.	Click the New button in the WPG Output Filter Setup dialog box. The New Profile Menu dialog box opens.

2.	Type a new profile name in the Profile Name box.

3.	Choose a profile from the Template Profile list box to use as a template.

4.	Click OK.

5.	Choose other settings in the WPG Output Filter Setup dialog box and click OK.

Note: All the settings you choose, except for the check box options Export Gradients and Export Text as Curves, are saved to the new profile.

Related Topics

New Profile Menu Dialog Box

WPG Output Filter Setup Dialog Box


Exporting a WPG File

To export a WPG file:

1.	Select the symbols you want to export. If no symbols are selected, the entire page is exported.

2.	Open the File menu and choose Export. The Export dialog box opens.

3.	Choose a drive and directory for the exported files destination, if necessary.

4.	Type a name for the file.

5.	Click the down arrow in the List Files of Type list box.

6.	Choose WPG - WordPerfect Graphics. Designer automatically adds the proper extension to the filename.

7.	Click Setup. The WPG Output Filter Setup dialog box opens.

8.	Choose the profile you want.

9.	Choose the color translation you want.

10.	Choose the line mode you want.

11.	Choose fill mode you want.

12.	Choose Export Gradients, if necessary.

13.	Choose Export Text as Curves, if you want.

14.	Click OK.

15.	Click Export. Designer exports the file in GEM format.

Note: If you skip steps 7 through 14, Designer uses the settings previously used when exporting to a WPG file.

Related Topics

Dialog Box information

INI File Settings

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Export Considerations


Importing a WPG File

To import a WPG file:

1.	Open the File menu and choose Import. The Import dialog box opens.

2.	Click the down arrow in the List Files of Type list box.

3.	Choose WPG - WordPerfect Graphics.

4.	Change to the drive and directory you want.

5.	Highlight the name of the file you want to import.

6.	Click Import. The dialog box closes and the imported file appears in the drawing area.

Related Topics

INI File Settings

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Import Considerations


Limitations of the WPG File Format

Fonts

When importing from WordPerfect, the translator supports only the Courier, Roman, and Swiss fonts. Other fonts may be exported by first converting text to curves.

Gradient Simulation

The Export Gradients option in the WPG Export Setup dialog box lets you choose how gradients are translated to the file.

Related Topics

INI File Settings

Import Considerations

Export Considerations


INI File Settings

The WPG translator stores configuration information in the files named IMWPG9.INI and EMWPG9.INI for import and export, respectively. WPG export options are automatically configured in the WPG Ouput Filter Setup dialog.

Related Topics

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Importing a WPG File

Exporting a WPG File


Converting Text to Curves

Some Micrografx applications allow text to be converted to curves, which are vector objects. These objects can be exported to WPG just like any other curved object.

Converted text will retain its original appearance in WordPerfect, instead of being changed to a WordPerfect font.

Please note that these objects can no longer be edited like text, nor converted back to text.

Related Topics

INI File Settings

Limitations of the WPG File Format

Export Considerations


Import Considerations

Rotated Bitmaps are not supported.

WPG files with word processor text commands such as justification, margins, and so on are not supported.

All patterns are imported as bitmap patterns.

WPG does not differentiate between edge attributes and line attributes.

Text on a path is not supported.

Shadowed symbols are drawn as two distinct symbols.

Related Topics

Importing a WPG File


Export Considerations

The Monochrome Printing profile is needed when printing bitmaps to monochrome printers.

WordPerfect does not support auxiliary colors in pattern fills. The auxiliary color is always set to the background color.

If the pattern is one of the standard patterns (low density to high density), a WPG pattern is chosen. If the pattern is a user-defined pattern, and if it matches one of the 64 WPG patterns bit-by-bit, then that pattern is used. Otherwise a default pattern is used.  Hatch styles are mapped to the nearest WPG hatch.

If the input file has 256 colors, then an optimum color table with 256 colors with the first 16 colors is the default. WP color table is used as the color table.

Line mode must be set to stroked for arrowheads to be emulated.

Restricted text is not supported in WPG.

WPG does not have arrow, check mark, and triangle bullets.

WordPerfect 5.1 does not import flipped objects correctly.

Font metrics limitations in WPG give poor results for rotated text.

DrawPerfect has a limit of 400 vertices in a polygon. Drawperfect attempts to subdivide polygons with more than 400 vertices, which can cause unpredictable results. WordPerfect does not have this limitation.

Related Topics

Exporting a WPG File

WPG Ouput Filter Setup Dialog Box