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Cylinder
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In the sixth Icon-box from the right you can set the cylinder's
orientation, its angle, and whether the end you can see is to have
a (blank) lid on. It has a lid when the 'Ends?' button is black.
With 'Ends?' turned off, the image round the back of the cylinder
is visible through the oval shape at the end of the cylinder. The
degree of wrap-around can be adjusted with the % slider.
The area to be projected onto the cylinder is selected with a left
click and pulled rectangle. A second click finishes the rectangle
and generates the cylinder-block. The block is visible only as a
frame at this stage, it can be moved anywhere on the page; then a
left-click makes the image visible and sets it into the picture.
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MENU 3
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Text: GEM
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To input GEM text click on the top left box in Menu 3. GEM font
control is via the second Icon-box from the right in the fixed row
at the bottom of the screen. Fonts must be mono-spaced. GDOS
fonts can be used if GDOS is loaded and the Assign.SYS file lists
them, otherwise you just have the system-font. In the font control
box the chosen font can be resized with the arrows below the word
'Paintshop'. Larger sizing is possible if you are using NVDI,
with its own version of GDOS. The 'Load' and 'Save' options are
for font-style lists, not actual fonts. Text can be set at four
angles (0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees).
The large selection of numbered typestyles at the top of the font
control box relates to the smaller grid of numbers. Left-click on
a style in the big array, hold down the mouse button and drag the
pointer into one of the boxes in the smaller grid. When you now
release the mouse button, the number you have dragged down will
replace the number already in that box. The little 'F1' to 'F10'
numbers in the small grid refer to the function keys on your
computer. Right-click to exit the control box.
When you click on the GEM box in Menu 3, the menu box disappears
and you have an arrow-pointer. Put this where you want the text
to begin. You can now type in your text. Don't go past the edge
of the screen; RETURN works, but not automatically! When done,
click the left mouse button to set the text into the picture, or
the right button to set the text and return to Menu 3. If you
used the left button you can create another line of text straight
away, or can exactly overwrite any mistakes so long as you have
not moved your textline off its previous position.
'F1' to 'F10' are used thus: If you are in GEM-text mode, and hit
one of your FUNCTION keys, a box will appear on screen showing the
typestyle you had allocated to that function-key, and offering you
the option to change into that style for whatever is typed next.
This font format is the weakest of the three in Paintshop so it is
probably as well to just stay with the system font. What makes the
GEM input an option worth having is this: if you click on GEM and
left-click on screen as normal, but then press the HELP key, a
character-selector comes up on screen with the non-keyboard ASCII
symbols, foreign letters etc. Click on the one you need, and it
appears in a special bar at the bottom of the screen. Right-click
and the bar disappears; the character enters your line of text.