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- Scribbler™ is an object orientated drawing package in a Desk Accessory.
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- How often when in the middle of using a text processing program, have you
- thought "I need a diagram!"? Using existing drawing packages, you have to
- quit, load the drawing package, draw the diagram, load up the Scrapbook or the
- Clipboard, and eventually, get back to your original document.
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- Pretty tedious huh!
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- Scribbler is designed to free you from this. Because Scribbler is a Desk
- Accessory, it's always available when you need it. You don't have think too
- far ahead, planning every single little diagram in advance. You don't have to
- stop writing and interrupt your flow just to place a simple diagram.
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- This documentation accompanies Scribbler 3.0
-
- Philosophy Scribbler is a tool which can be used with other Macintosh
- applications to suit your own way of working. It does not offer a COMPLETE
- drawing program. Use it with other DA's and programs to make your own work
- environment.
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- Scribbler lets you insert drawings in documents owned and maintained by other
- programs. It is not intended as a free-standing drawing package. Scribbler
- does not print the drawings itself.
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- Scribbler DOES NOT let you dismantle a PICT like you can in MacDraw.
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- Scribbler maintains a private description of the objects in a drawing. Once
- you place a PICT in some document, you lose all trace of the Scribbler objects
- unless you've saved a copy. So remember to save your drawing if you want the
- option to change it later.
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- Don't be too critical when comparing Scribbler with the likes of MacDraw.
- Scribbler is no heavyweight, but it is far from being trivial.
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- Change History Version 1.0 Released in June '87
- Basic drawing of text + graphics. Drawings must be saved to the
- Scrapbook so that you can re-edit them. Uses only TEXT + PICT scrap types. You
- couldn't copy text back out of Scribbler.
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- Version 2.0 Released late '87
- The significant enhancment in this version was to provide more
- flexible interchange of graphics with Guide™ 2.0. Scribbler 2.0 reads and
- writes the GUIF scrap format used by Guide 2.0. (Not Guide 1.0 - the format
- changed.)
- More trivial enhancements were the provision of arrowheads on
- lines, a wider range of text sizes and improved TEXT scrap handling. This
- version currently ships with Guide 2.0, but hasn't had wide distribution on
- BBS's etc.
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- Version 3.0 This version - released March '88
- In response to (some) public wishes:
- You can now save the Scribbler worksheet to disk.
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- You can specify any text size you like from 3pt to 128pt.
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- The Text Style… dialog now indicates which sizes are available
- as "real" fonts.
- A few cosmetic changes.
- It's BIGGER!! (sorry) Drawing Tools The drawing tools follow
- Macintosh conventions. Most of Scribbler's controls will work in the obvious
- way. There are three special keys which you use with Scribbler, the Command,
- Option and Shift Keys.
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- Command Key Scribbler releases the drawing tool as soon as you've drawn an
- object. To get back the last used drawing tool, hold down the Command key.
- If you keep the Command key held down, you can draw several objects of the
- same type, eg lines, boxes, in succession.
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- Option Key Hold down the Option key before you drag an already selected object,
- and the movement will be constrained to horizontal or vertical movement.
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- Hold down the Option key and click on an object that's a member of a group.
- This selects the object, but keeps it in the group. You can apply a style
- change, or you resize the object, or move it around. No need to dismantle the
- group first! (Use Shift + Option to select several objects from the same
- group.)
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- Shift Key
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- To extend a selection, hold down the Shift key when selecting.
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- To constrain a NEW object to be a Square, a Circle, or a Horizontal or
- Vertical Line, hold down the Shift key BEFORE drawing it.
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- To preserve the proportions of an object, hold down the Shift key BEFORE
- resizing that object.
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- Pallettes The "extra" scroll bar at bottom left of the Scribbler window cycles
- through Fill Patterns, Pen Patterns and Line Thicknesses. (Pen Patterns apply
- to Box Frames as well as to Lines.) Clicking on a pallette item changes that
- attribute for the current selection, and also changes the settings for the
- next object that you draw. The square box below the pallettes shows the
- current settings. The Fill/Pen pattern at top/left is the NULL Fill/Pen. The
- first six patterns are fixed, but the last eight are Resources - use ResEdit
- to change them if you like.
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- Scribbler and Guide 2.0 Versions 2.0 and 3.0 of Scribbler can exchange
- scrap/clipboard data with Guide.
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- If you create separate objects or groups in Scribbler and paste them into
- Guide 2.0, they will remain separate elements.
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- If you paste graphics elements from Guide 2.0 to Scribbler, they will remain
- separate objects.
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- However, once a Scribbler object or group has been taken into Guide and
- brought back into Scribbler, it becomes a PICT and so it cannot be edited.
- Similarly, Scribbler groups which have been taken into Guide and brought back
- become PICTs and cannot be ungrouped.
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- This interchange is only good with Guide graphic elements - the label or
- replacement of a button, or the background of a diagram. Guide structures are
- not recognised or preserved by Scribbler.
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- With Guide 1.0, use Scribbler version 1.0 instead. Scribbler is Shareware.
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- To encourage more ventures like this, send $25 US, or £15, to one of these
- addresses.
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- OWL International Inc Office Workstations Ltd 14218 NE 21st St
- 5 Abbeymount Techbase Bellevue 2 Easter Road WA 98007 EDINBURGH EH7 5AN USA
- Scotland
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- Phone: (1) 206 747 3203 Phone: (44) 31 659 6737 Compuserve:
- 76545,444 Compuserve: 72057,703
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- Invite your friends to see your etchings!
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- This could be the start of something - Happy Scribbling.
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- Small Print Scribbler and this manual are Copyright © 1988 OWL International
- Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- You may give a copy of Scribbler and this manual to anyone you wish.
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- You must leave the copyright message and Shareware notice in the "About…"
- dialog intact.
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- You may not sell Scribbler, or receive monetary compensation for distributing
- it.
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- You may not distribute Scribbler along with a product for sale without written
- permission
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- from OWL International Inc.
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- MacDraw, Font/DA Mover, and ResEdit are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc.
- Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc. Scribbler and Guide
- are trademarks of OWL International Inc.
-