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!DrawRot
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v 1.01 8/8/96
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.
Mrs A. R. Miskin miskin@argonet.co.uk
23 Hardwick Drive http://argonet.co.uk/users/miskin
Loughborough
Leics
LE11 4TJ
v1.01 First released version
Future plans :
• Handle text without converting to paths.